The author is a senior columnist and Secretary General Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s readiness to discuss terrorism before anything else gives him a lever to persuade India to return to the negotiating...
The only way the terrorists can be denied success is to avoid taking actions that can take Pakistan and India farther away from the path of amity...
Justice Saqib Nisar’s attempt to clean up the vast stables of a faltering state has revived the debate on the limits to judicial and legal...
With the NAB drive against certain politicians, Pakistan will rapidly move towards becoming a one-party state with all its inevitable consequences
So long as the people do not realise that the right to freedom of speech, opinion and expression and access to information are their fundamental...
No clear evidence is available to suggest any effort on part of the government to prevent the potential agitators from capturing strategic points on...
The impression that NAB’s independence, impartiality and efficiency are in question has been strengthened over the last 22 months
The way out is a clear division of labour between the political authority and the bureaucracy -- the former’s job is to decide what public...
The fallout of the Atif Mian episode shows that the matter has acquired greater and more ominous dimensions than the controversy over his nomination
Kuldip Nayar, the journalist who thought of himself as a citizen of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and lived a politically charged life
The cause of democracy demands that all questions related to the alleged manipulation of the elections are resolved, else people will lose hope,...
The goal of having a free and fair election remains a dream. Will it ever be realised?
How long will it take for the judiciary to grow out of the undeniably adverse effects of unbridled populism? Looking at chief justices’...
An appraisal of the outgoing government’s five years reveals lapses that have put question marks on Pakistan’s future as a functional and...
An account of the broad features of the raw deal served to labour by the state as the country prepares to observe the 71st May Day
The case has much greater significance than adjudication on the charges against the SSP under suspension as it brings into focus the whole issue of ...
A little lawyer from Lahore became the greatest defender of human rights in the subcontinent. What a life to celebrate for a long, long time
While political parties and citizens must render unto the judiciary what is due to it, the judiciary will minimise the need to invoke the contempt...
It is difficult to put Munnoo Bhai in any box but perhaps it can be said that he was a many-sided humanist; radical in his outlook on life,...
A child has many rights other than the right to protection against rape and murder. By ignoring the large body of children’s rights we make them...
