The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.
The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.Good faith is a well-entrenched concept in law. You act in bad faith if you argue a position you know to...
The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.As a man one can’t possibly relate to the horror endured by the woman who was raped in front of her kids...
The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.A polity that runs out of the ability to generate new ideas has no option but to rehash old and failed...
Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed. Photo: fileThe chief justice of Pakistan took suo-motu cognizance of the PTI regime’s response to...
On the one hand, we have the Lahore High Court’s order rejecting the bail petition for Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman. And on the other we saw a detailed...
One set of leaders employs populist rhetoric to consolidate their support base by provoking fear, anger or hate. Another has the charisma and vision...
Those who thought PM Imran Khan might suspend partisan pettifoggery in a time of a global health and economic crisis to forge national unity to...
What is Prime Minister Imran Khan’s strategy to fight the coronavirus other than relying on the miracle that our genes might somehow be less...
Outrage over the Aurat March each year flags the need to revisit John Rawls’ Theory of Justice.If you honestly engage with arguments rooted in...
With its 19 seats back in 2002, the PML-N showed more spunk in times of outright dictatorship than it does today in the face of praetorianism with a...
When Francis Fukuyama wrote his essay back in 1992, he argued that the idea of Western liberal democracy stood accepted and entrenched and while...
Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code, being employed generously to scuttle protests by students and others offended by the state’s...
Well begun is half done, they say. The year 2020 has started well for some. If we thought 2019 entrenched control from behind the curtain, the...
Why would a judge open himself to such criticism at the end of a fairly reasoned opinion is a wonder.
We seek inspiration from the fact that this country was founded by a lawyer who viewed constitutionalism and the law as a source of protection for...
The Faiz Festival last week brimmed with the vigoor of our tenacious youth. The setting was perfect. Faiz’s revolutionary poetry reverberated...
In Nawaz Sharif’s case, the system as represented by the PTI regime has one concern: that NS shouldn’t die on its hands, and if he does, the...
Our zeal for a presidential system is abiding. Those who are critical of democracy for being unsuited to the ‘genius of our people’ but who also...
An Anti Terror Court letting CTD officials walk free after the Sahiwal slaughter of innocent citizens isn’t the system malfunctioning. It is the...
The PTI’s diatribe against the JUI-F dharna, and efforts to employ the law to scuttle it is certainly seeped in hypocrisy. The PAT brought to the...
