After Pakistan's top human rights lawyers call it a terrorist state, Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha have been sentenced 17 years in jail. Many countries, including India, have called Pakistan a terrorist state several times, a charge Islamabad has strongly denied. Prominent human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, Hadi Ali Chattha, have called Pakistan a terrorist state. The two prominent human rights activists were sentenced under the contentious Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). Freedom House ranked Pakistan’s human rights in 2022 at 37 out of 100, calling it "partly free."

Source: dna January 26, 2026 07:37 UTC