In the world of constitutional law, differences of interpretation make all the difference. Take, for instance, the issue of federal-provincial...
The science of the law is not advanced by coining entirely new concepts – because that, in the world of law, would be heresy.This doesn’t mean...
If you think I’m going to dwell in this piece upon the relationship between our executive and alleged ‘selectors’, you’re totally mistaken....
About two years ago, when Prime Minister Imran Khan was elected, in his first speech to the nation, he promised to foster a culture of grassroots...
The 7th recital of the preamble of our constitution promises that Pakistan shall be a state where the “units will be autonomous”.Roughly...
A few weeks back, I had shared my concern in an article in these pages that "most people involved in public life in Pakistan still live in the...
Official statistics show that over 66 percent of Pakistan’s total prison population consists of under-trial prisoners. Our average conviction rate...
What good is a liberal constitution if it cannot secure the most basic of all liberties: the liberty of person?Seventy-two years after the supposed...
The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has of late adopted the view that every public institution in Pakistan must get its accounts audited by...
On October 31, 2019, President Arif Alvi promulgated eight new ordinances. These ordinances include three for reforming the civil justice system,...
Political commentators tend to think that 'political' cases – the likes of the Avenfield case, the Al-Azizia case and fake accounts case – are...
Two weeks back, unconfirmed news started circulating in the media that the president of Pakistan had filed references before the Supreme Judicial...
One of the 20th century’s most widely-loved pieces of literature is a song from the 1960s titled ‘Blowing in the Wind’. Authored by Bob Dylan,...
On Monday, April 30, 2019, a slim majority of the Punjab Assembly voted in favour of the Punjab Local Government Bill, 2019. The Punjab governor has...
The room is packed with an eager audience of journalists. Advocate Khurshid Hassan Meer, newly-appointed minister for establishment of the PPP, is...
“A judiciary which … is tardy… and has no urge… and ability to decide the cases/disputes before it expeditiously… is a danger to the state...
In January, after the retirement of Chief Justice Jamali, a re-constituted Supreme Court bench began hearing the Panama case. It soon became clear...
The defining moment of Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali’s tenure was November 3, 2015, when he stood in the Senate of Pakistan –the...
On November 23, 2016, the federal cabinet approved a proposal for giving members of parliament a pay raise. The total salary of parliamentarians...
As Hilary Rodham Clinton stands waiting on the gates of the White House, ready to occupy a throne never before occupied by women, thoughtful people...
For many months now, the interior ministry has been repeatedly vowing to throw out two million human beings – an inhumane policy that is...
At the UN Headquarters in New York, politicians from across the globe are gathering this week. On the agenda is the worst refugee crisis since the...
Sometimes the most significant cases receive very little commentary. That seems to be the fate of Mustafa Impex and Others v The Federation decided...
Last year, Pakistan’s former chief justice, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, showed the bar and the bench a mirror when he announced the results of...
The committee report that emerged from the Senate on December 30, 2015 was meant to be a plan for revamping our ailing justice system. But the...
The writer is a lawyer associated with Foundation for Fundamental Rights.The Supreme Court’s decision in Kaukab Iqbal v The Federation, a petition...
For many of us, March 23 brings back the fondest memories of childhood. Every year, on this day, as soon as I could haul myself out of bed, I would...
Our autocratic civilian rulers got over their usual squabbling and came together to whizz through parliament two important statutes: the...
