The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad.
Pakistan could use a vacation. The environment all around has become so cynical that it is almost toxic. There are a few grand assumptions that are...
Half the country will celebrate Khawaja Asif’s disqualification as a move that will help cleanse the Augean stables. The other half will see it as...
The Supreme Court’s decision clarifying that disqualification under Article 62 would be lifetime is neither extraordinary nor unexpected. A...
Twitter had the pithiest commentary on Geo’s blackout. After missing persons we now have missing channels, it said. The comparison is apt. The...
Last Saturday, while grilling the chief secretary of Punjab over salaries being paid to managements companies formed by the Punjab government, the...
Let’s assume Nawaz Sharif is done and dusted. Is the ‘Bajwa doctrine’ capable of leading this country onward and upward?Conceding that the...
There is no polite way of saying this: democracy and its institutions are on a very short leash. With Sadiq Sanjrani elected chairman of the Senate,...
