Asad Jamal

Asad Jamal

  • How not to legislate

    Part - II The Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2016 draws a lot from the draft bill presented by former senator Sughra Imam and passed in the Senate...

  • How not to legislate

    Part - I A controversy has erupted since parliament, in a joint sitting, unanimously passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2016 earlier this...

  • How not to legislate

    Part - I A controversy has erupted since parliament, in a joint sitting, unanimously passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2016 earlier this...

  • How not to legislate

    Part - I A controversy has erupted since parliament, in a joint sitting, unanimously passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2016 earlier this...

  • Eliminate enforced disappearances

    August 30 marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Since 2011 this day has been observed to remind UN member states of...

  • Protecting women from crimes of ‘honour’

    The recent high-profile murder of Qandeel Baloch, allegedly killed by her brothers to vindicate their ‘ghairat’ or ‘honour’,...

  • The dishonour of compromise

    It is ironic how one has to describe a crime of the worst kind with a word like ‘honour’. Thus when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says...

  • The Maldives at a crossroads

    The Maldives, otherwise known for its natural beauty and tourism, has recently been in the news for political turmoil and the trampling of civil...