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Asad Jamal
Asad Jamal

  • October 28, 2016

    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...

  • October 26, 2016

    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...

  • October 26, 2016

    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...

  • October 26, 2016

    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...

  • August 30, 2016

    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...

  • August 07, 2016

    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’,...

  • February 28, 2016

    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...

  • February 24, 2016

    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...