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Saturday, May 04, 2013
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. As we move towards deciding who will assume power for the next few years and deal with the enormous security, financial, energy and governance crises holding Pakistan ...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. For the most part of our history ordinary folk have been suspicious of lawyers and complained about our lack of ethics. No landlord wants a lawyer as a tenant for he’ll abuse ...
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Saturday, April 20, 2013
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. A coterie of purists might have wished to drag Musharraf back from exile and punish him for his crimes against the constitution. But the vast majority of Pakistanis just ...
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Babar Sattar
Legal eye Within the buffoonery of the electoral scrutiny process is implicit the enthusiasm of controlled-democracy proponents to cleanse political stables through abuse of the legal process. That public officials should be ...
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Saturday, April 06, 2013
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. Is there something unique about us as a people that whenever we stumble upon power we feel duty bound to abuse it? Growing up one saw the village maulvi demanding that the ...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
Babar Sattar ... The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.
Whether or not you plan to vote for Imran Khan’s party, if you wish for democracy to prosper in Pakistan, it is hard not to wish for the PTI to emerge as a viable political party. The political arena in Pakistan doesn’t provide a ...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad Are we done congratulating ourselves over a democratically elected government having completed its term despite doomsday predictions all along? Let’s acknowledge that the ...
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Saturday, March 16, 2013
Babar Sattar
Legal eye The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. We continue to hear that terrorists roam free in this country and play havoc with innocent lives because courts set them free. The argument essentially is that the judicial ...
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Saturday, March 09, 2013
Babar Sattar... The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.
J K Rowling has a point when she argues that, “If you are holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.” This is good advice for leaders generally. There are certain public offices ...
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