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Monday December 04, 2023
Feisal Naqvi
Feisal Naqvi

  • September 21, 2023

    Lawyering and its discontents

    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...

  • October 22, 2022

    A step too far

    The Supreme Court recently released its detailed judgment on Article 63A. Written by Justice Munib Akhtar, the judgment holds that when a...

  • October 11, 2022

    Corruption, wealth and vengeance

    There is no acceptable form of indigenously acquired wealth in Pakistan. If you were born wealthy, then obviously your ancestors were bootlickers of...

  • October 02, 2022

    Why civility matters

    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...

  • September 03, 2022

    Reverse-engineering the Supreme Court

    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...

  • August 27, 2022

    Fixing judicial appointments: Part - II

    In my earlier column, ‘Fixing judicial appointments’ , I had argued that the intractable debate between those advocating unrestrained discretion...

  • August 24, 2022

    The hearts of men

    Many years ago, there was an iconic radio show called ‘The Shadow’ in which the title character would be introduced with the tagline, “Who...

  • August 18, 2022

    Fixing judicial appointments

    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...

  • April 09, 2022

    Why it matters

    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...

  • April 06, 2022

    Destroying democracy from within

    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...