The writer is founding partner of Mazari-Hazir Advocates & Legal Consultants.Although we are told that all human beings are born free and equal in...
That there is an apprehension that Zahir Jaffer will be taken out of Pakistan by his influential family speaks volumes for the state of criminal...
In February 2018, former New Democrat Member of the Canadian Parliament, Peter Stoffer, apologized after colleagues accused him of inappropriate...
“Bury your dead and I shall arrive”. This is what the Hazara community was told after eleven Hazara coal miners were blindfolded and...
In January 2018, 27-year-old Naqeebullah Mehsud was murdered by the police in an ‘encounter’ in Karachi. The following year, on January 19,...
The writers are lawyersOn the 28the of October this year, the women of Pakistan released a letter and Charter of Demands, which was addressed to the...
The global system for trade is in a state of crisis. The World Trade Organization has been systematically dismantled and attacked from within by...
Zahra Shah, who has been referred to as “Zohra Shah” in all mainstream media thus far, was a seven-year-old child, working as domestic help in a...
A culture of harassment is embedded in the foundations of societies worldwide. All over the world, women are faced with workplace harassment, sexual...
This is a mindset that has been systematically ingrained within us by both the civil and military leadership. We cannot forget how, in 2005, then...
For several decades now, Pakistani society has operated under the doctrine of control vis-a-vis women. As a result, the human dignity of Pakistani...
The recent decision by the UAE to normalize relations with Israel has been termed a “stab in the back” by Palestinian leaders. This move by the...
Over four hundred people have signed a letter to the Punjab Assembly, demanding that the Punjab Tahaffuz-e-Bunyad-e-Islam Bill 2020 be withdrawn in...
The writer is founding partner of Mazari-Hazir Advocates & Legal Consultants.In 2018, Sahil released a report titled ‘Cruel Numbers 2018’, which...
The writer is founding partner of Mazari-Hazir Advocates & Legal Consultants.There seems to be a trend that has concretized in the minds of...
A woman should be many things except what she herself desires to be, especially when the prospect of a better life for her involves greater...
A clip from CNN has become a source of great embarrassment for the entire country. In the clip, Richard Quest is asked first what he makes of the...
While resources are scant, those that have been allocated towards family planning have not been utilized appropriately. There has been ample...
Pakistan has a population of 220 million people but nowhere close to the amount of resources required to house, feed, employ or in any way provide...
Everything happens for a reason. And so the National Accountability Ordinance was promulgated in 1999 by former military dictator and current...
Naya Pakistan has been a terrible joke played on the general populous. We were promised, among many other promises that remain unfulfilled, a...
States that retain the death penalty subscribe to a model of retributive justice: an eye for an eye, a nail for a nail. But as Gandhi said, an eye...
Much has been written on self-determination, both as a right and as a general principle, under international law. Perhaps the earliest recognition...
The US ensured removal of all references to sexual and reproductive health from a UNSC resolution on ending sexual violence in war.The omitted...
Edmund Burke quite rightly noted: “the greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse”. The concept of diplomatic immunity is the most widely...
That the government of Pakistan failed to make its case against provisional measures at the International Court of Justice hearing on Kulbhushan...
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its shoes on”. The saying goes something like that –...
Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and now Trump. The world finds its scapegoats. After all, it is much too easy for us to attribute all the evil and...
While the world is still reeling from the shock of being Trumped, Pakistanis seem to have forgotten about everything other than the Panama Papers...
The UN Global Education Monitoring Report 2016 highlights that Pakistan is alarmingly lagging behind in implementing its primary and secondary...
It is indeed true that a picture is worth a thousand words. The picture of armed police in Nice demanding a woman strip down is one apt...
Owing to the plethora of problems faced by Pakistan, we often brush aside drug abuse and addiction, not realising that the problem will continue to...
Rebel fighter, Burhan Wani, was killed by Indian security forces in Indian-Occupied Kashmir . The extrajudicial killing was followed by a massive...
As usual, environmental law and regulation remains the last item on the global agenda, despite the fact that it is the most pressing issue in need...
A differently-abled, 22-year-old woman was recently raped by a hospital worker at a known hospital. This heinous crime was not committed in a public...
Additional district and sessions judge Najaf Shahzadi was recently locked in her courtroom by a group of lawyers in Lahore. It took a male district...
They came, they saw and, contrary to what the government will have you believe, they conquered. Immense damage to public property and vitriol-filled...
For Europe to now realise that it is in a state of war is not only a manifestation of the white-centric mindset that has created more than half of...
Following 9/11, the United States changed its priorities. It convinced its population that ‘national security’ considerations had to...
While security concerns are premised in the unfortunate reality that terrorists in Pakistan have chosen to attack educational institutions, the...
We promised ourselves ‘never again’ but remained apathetic to terrorist attacks which we were disconnected from owing to lack of proximity. As a...
Saad-ur-Rehman Khan and Imaan Zainab Hazir Mazari With an increasing number of international legal instruments being ratified by Pakistan, the...
With existential threats emanating from terrorism and a chaotic law and order situation, the last topic on the government’s mind is environmental...
‘Rigging’. It all started from that one word that haunts us today . While there is no doubt that a certain degree of rigging continues to plague...
