The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
Despite the refreshingly clear judgment of the Lahore High Court directing the Election Commission of Pakistan to hold elections for the Punjab...
If those who claim direct access to the powers that be are to be believed, the country is set for another bout of ‘wise men’ deciding that the...
The dissolution of the National Awami Party in 1975 followed months of degradation of the party and its leadership in the mass media. This was a...
When all sides are intent on gaming the law for political gain, the ambition to be objective – one hesitates to use the word neutral – is a...
“Members of the Supreme Court are vested with the authority to interpret the law ... it is not the Court's job to protect the people from the...
The April 7 order of the Supreme Court, quashing the deputy speaker’s ruling of April 3 and, as a consequence, the prime minister’s advice and...
Every chief justice of Pakistan has the opportunity to choose issues for engagement that will define the tenor of the Supreme Court with him as the...
Those who wield power in the Islamic Republic do not expect to be confronted with resistance, disclosure, or critique in full view of the populace....
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.In the decade or so after school as I negotiated various economics and law degrees at...
Coming at the heels of the Minar-e-Pakistan ‘incident’, the prime minister’s recent lament that English medium schools are creating a class of...
In his article in these pages , ‘Seniority v merit: a false binary’ , friend and elegant thinker about law and life, Salahuddin Ahmed who is...
The reservations expressed by the Sindh High Court Bar Association and, later, by the Supreme Court Bar Association about the intended elevation of...
In a rousing, if dramatic, moment in the justly celebrated documentary ‘The Ascent of Man’, the mathematician and historian – and all else in...
An unjust lull has set in after eleven days of Israeli barbarity that saw the use of disproportionate murderous force against a Palestinian...
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan’s death in New Delhi last month at the age of 96 has resulted in a spate of commemorative articles in the Pakistani press....
The short order of the Supreme Court of Pakistan – of April 26, 2021 – rendered by a majority of six with four honourable judges dissenting, in...
For some years now I A Rehman Sahib, who passed away gracefully and in harness at age ninety last week, would let out a wry lament, ‘Fighting...
By July 2007, General Musharraf had started feeling nervous. He felt he needed to reach out and build a good opinion of himself among those with a...
Judiciaries around the world are often seen as going through phases. Only occasionally are courts the site of resistance against the hegemonic...
German legal philosopher Carl Schmitt’s book ‘Legality and Legitimacy’, published in 1932 as the Weimer Republic crumbled towards its end,...
Chief Justice Marshall’s reflection in ‘McCulloch v Maryland’ , “it is a Constitution we are expounding” has travelled down the ages as a...
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.Last week the federal government, as well as the governments of Punjab and Khyber...
The essential facts relevant to the Broadsheet matter are by now firmly obscured by political spin and a seemingly endless societal need for scandal...
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.Enactment and enforcement of legislation against child marriage has repeatedly run into...
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.When, nearly two years ago, Meesha Shafi accused a prominent singer and actor of...
Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which forms the basis of the accession of the state of Jammu and Kashmir to the Indian Union and provides...
Some basic truths must be stated. Such are the times. The rights of speech and association reside at the heart of democracy. These rights seek to...
In a curious piece on these pages Feisal Naqvi, normally the most clear-eyed of commentators, has declared the Federal Shariat Court a mere talk...
