opinion
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Seniority v merit: a false binary?
Salahuddin Ahmed
The 5-4 decision by the Judicial Commission to elevate a junior judge from the Sindh High Court to the Supreme Court has sparked discontent within the legal fraternity.The bars claim the JC has...
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India’s failed assumptions
Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri
August 5, 2021 marks the completion of two years since India’s illegal and unilateral actions in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir , taken as part of the RSS-BJP agenda to perpetuate...
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Perils of patriarchy
Kamila Hyat
We live in a patriarchal society. Most of us, especially women, understand what this means. It means a society in which men almost from the moment of birth are considered superior and too often grow...
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Two years of lost autonomy
Ershad Mahmud
Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed unprecedented constitutional, political and socio-economic engineering since the nullification of Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution,...
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Kashmir solidarity
Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani
Exactly two years ago, the Modi government abolished Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution to remove the special status of Indian Occupied Kashmir.The government of Pakistan not only...
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Failed policies
James Chai
Malaysia’s biggest Covid-19 fear was becoming a mini-India and unfortunately, it has come true. Its daily infection and death counts per capita surpassed India’s peak. At the end of July,...