Activists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan have raised the issue of worsening human rights situation in their provinces during the 43rd session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland.

Baloch, Pashtun facing worst human rights crisis, say activists at UNHRC

A Pakistani court Saturday ordered the release of a Pashtun rights leader critical of the military, his lawyer said, weeks after he was arrested on sedition charges.

Pakistan court orders release of Pashtun rights leader

While Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan continues to harp about the rights of the people of Kashmir, he is now facing protests about Pakistan's continued interference in Jammu and Kashmir.

Afghans protest outside Pakistan embassy in Kabul

In a pre-emptive strike to stop the Pashtuns from backing the Baloch cause of freedom from Pakistan, the Pakistani security forces heckled, harassed and arrested a group of Pashtun leaders, when they were going to attend the funeral of Arman Loni.

Pak security forces arrest Pashtun leaders backing Baloch freedom

Authorities in Pakistan's Baluchistan province said on Sunday they had launched an investigation into the death of a regional leader of a Pakistani civil rights group, who died in what his movement called a "targeted attack" by police at a sit-in.

Prominent human rights leader killed by police in Pakistan: Civil rights group

The incident occurred in the Rustam Bazar of Wana, the main town of South Waziristan where the military has in the past conducted a string of punishing offensives to hunt down Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants

Two killed as activists clash with militants in Pakistan tribal area