Hasan Ali in action with India's Ravindra Jadeja before getting caught out by Shubman Gill. — Reuters/FilePakistan and India played three cricket...
Hasan Ali in action with India's Ravindra Jadeja before getting caught out by Shubman Gill. — Reuters/FilePakistan and India played three cricket...
The United Nations logo is seen at UN headquarters in New York. — AFP/FileWorking Group III is one of several working groups operating under the...
The United Nations logo is seen at UN headquarters in New York. — AFP/FileWorking Group III is one of several working groups operating under the...
The plight of young law graduates, and specifically the fact that they get paid very little, has recently been much discussed on social media. Since...
The Supreme Court recently released its detailed judgment on Article 63A. Written by Justice Munib Akhtar, the judgment holds that when a...
There is no acceptable form of indigenously acquired wealth in Pakistan. If you were born wealthy, then obviously your ancestors were bootlickers of...
About a week ago, Federal Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb was accosted and harassed in London by a group of PTI supporters while on her way...
Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial is a good man faced with an impossible situation. No matter what he does, he is likely to be lambasted by one side or...
In my earlier column, ‘Fixing judicial appointments’ , I had argued that the intractable debate between those advocating unrestrained discretion...
Many years ago, there was an iconic radio show called ‘The Shadow’ in which the title character would be introduced with the tagline, “Who...
The last meeting of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan on July 28, 2022 ended badly. None of the five nominees proposed by the chief justice of...
The writer is a lawyer of the Supreme Court. The views expressed in this column do not represent the views of his firm.There have been plenty of...
The writer is a lawyer of the Supreme Court. The views expressed in this column do not represent the views of his firm.Marx said that history...
The deputy speaker’s ruling is far more troubling as a matter of law
My father died at 2:15 pm last Sunday. I would like to say that he died in my arms, but the truth is that by the time I heard my sister scream and...
In my previous column in these pages , I had argued that seniority was not a good criteria for appointments to the Supreme Court, and that there was...
Let us begin with two basic propositions: one, competence is not the same thing as seniority; and two, it is vitally important that only the most...
The novel coronavirus confronts Pakistan with an enormous crisis. Like many other countries, we are caught between two evils: the only apparent way...
Every Independence Day, we are told stories of horror and terror, of how friend turned on friend and how neighbour slaughtered neighbour. We hear...
