The writer is a Peshawar-based lawyer.
The Supreme Court building in Islamabad. — AFP/File The Supreme Court has given its findings on the much-debated Supreme Court Act 2023....
For the first time in the judicial history of Pakistan, the Judicial Commission of Pakistan , through a majority decision, nominated a woman judge...
Last week, Pakistan was ranked 130th among the 139 assessed countries globally in “adherence to rule of law”, evaluated by the World Justice...
Since Independence, the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas were governed through the draconian Frontier Crimes Regulation, 1905.Until...
In the middle of October this year, Pakistan was re-elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which works globally for the...
After countless sacrifices of its people and as many operations, peace has finally returned to erstwhile Fata. Parliament passed the 25th...
A month on, confirmed Covid-19 confirmed patients have passed from zero to more than 1400 in Pakistan. Sadly, people are not only horrified at this...
For the current financial year, the government allocated Rs59 billion to the HEC against the demand of Rs103 billion – Rs6 billion less than the...
Since the PTI-led government has entered the second year of heading the affairs of the government; there has been much debate around the question of...
Last week, the Supreme Court was apprised by the federal ombudsman on the state of the country's prisons. Ostensibly, the report claimed that 77,275...
World Cleanup Day 2019, which was commemorated on September 21, was successful in directly mobilizing more than 20 million people across the...
On August 5, India revoked Article 370 and Article 35-A of the Indian constitution through Presidential Order C.O 272 to alter the special...
On December 16, the nation observed the fourth anniversary of the APS Peshawar attack. People paid tributes and spoke about the sacrifices of the...
For decades, the people of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas were forcedly kept under the draconian colonial Frontier Crimes Regulation...
The persistent struggle for equal rights and the matchless sacrifices by the people of former FATA, along with tireless efforts by activists,...
With its 100-day plan, the incumbent PTI government hopes to bring about improvements in the country’s education sector, which emerged as a major...
On December 21, 2010 – after noticing the alarming increase in enforced disappearances in various countries in the world – the United Nations...
The protection of the rights of the workers appears to have become more than a challenge for our country, particularly after the 18th Amendment was...
Asma Jahangir fought for her principles and not for or against a person or institution. Regardless of her ideological and personal differences, she...
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s education minister made some alarming revelations last month about his department receiving more than 700,000 applications...
We have a history of taking temporary fixing measures but never focus on taking cogent steps that can permanently reform our flawed criminal justice...
With the passing of the 18th Constitutional Amendment, the subject of environment was devolved to the provinces. Subsequently, the Khyber...
The last week of 2017 was extremely depressing. A bench of the Supreme Court absolved a man accused of blasphemy charges for want of evidence. The...
The recent 15 day-night long ‘peaceful agitation’ by the students of the University of Peshawar against fee hike has certainly forced us to...
Besides the doctrine of vicarious liabilities, across the globe every person is only responsible for his acts and omissions; this is the universal...
Since 1992, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities has been commemorated on December 3 to protect and promote the rights and wellbeing...
After being in power for more than four years, the PTI-led KP government, with the help of the City Development Initiative for Asia, established the...
The incident of a girl who was forcibly stripped to and paraded through her village in DI Khan has principally unmasked our weak and fragile...
The provincial autonomy and ‘devolution’ of twenty-seven different ministries/departments from the federal to the provincial governments...
The World Day against the Death Penalty will be observed tomorrow. The day is marked to urge states to abolish capital punishment since it has no...
In 1901, the Frontier Crimes Regulations was promulgated in Fata. The regulation was originally drafted in 1872 by the British rulers. In order to...
After the 18th Amendment, administrative powers were decentralised and shifted from the federal government to the provinces. Through the insertion...
The annual report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan suggests that five presidential ordinances were promulgated, 51 laws were legislated...
