Pakistan Government Intensifies Crackdown on Political Dissent

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Police officers fire tear gas to disperse the supporters of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party, during a protest in Islamabad, Pakistan, October 5, 2024. © 2024 W.K. Yousafzai/AP Photo Pakistani government actions against the Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI), the political party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, signal an intensifying crackdown on dissent. Last Saturday, hundreds of PTI supporters, many of whom had traveled from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the party controls the provincial government, violently clashed with…

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