- Pakistan is added to civic space watchlist with authorities targeting activists, stifling protests and restricting digital spaces.
- Human rights defenders are arbitrarily criminalised on terrorism charges. Pashtun rights movement banned; Crackdowns on opposition and ethnic minority protests are rampant.
- Journalists are targeted and amended law clamps down on online speech.
Pakistan’s recent criminalisation of activists, stifling of opposition and minority protests, and digital space restrictions have resulted in the county being added to the CIVICUS Monitor watchlist.