A representational image showing a security personnel sanding guard beside a ship carrying containers at Gwadar port. — AFP/FileThe meltdown of...
The Supreme Court building in Islamabad. The SC website/File The Supreme Court and other superior courts have the power to interpret the...
Justice is the soul of a government. The term ‘access to justice’, as understood and used, means approaching judicial institutions for...
The constitution empowers all branches of the government to frame rules for their internal business. The constitution also does not allow discussion...
Mark Tushnet in his book ‘Why the constitution matters’ argues that the constitution matters because it provides a structure for a civil...
The Election Commission of Pakistan has been given the power to punish someone for contempt under Section 10 the Election Act, 2017. A similar power...
Pakistan’s highway to prosperity and stability goes through India. And India’s entry to the developed world depends on its cooperation with...
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court and former additional attorney general for Pakistan.The constitution entrusts the judiciary with the...
A split advisory opinion was given by the Supreme Court on a presidential reference under Article 186 of the constitution. The reference sought an...
Unlike other countries, where democracy is functional and state institutions are run by visionary leaders, politics in Pakistan thrives on hate and...
The Supreme Court’s decision whereby the deputy speaker’s ruling of April 8, 2022 on a point of order rejecting a no-confidence motion against...
Pakistan’s political sky is once again under the dark clouds of political instability. These cycles of instability come every three to four years...
A nation that regularly quarrels with its constitution requires immediate treatment of its social, political and moral decadence. Even the finest...
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court and former additional attorney general for Pakistan.Democracy in Pakistan has been interrupted by...
The myth of constitutionalism in Pakistan keeps bursting. Almost all branches of the government, despite their powers clearly defined in the...
The constitution of Pakistan will turn fifty in about two years. It is time to assess its working during all these years. It has been put in...
Nations are led by thinkers, intellectuals, philosophers and idealist leaders. It is a pity that nowadays one hardly finds any noticeable...
Prime Minister Imran Khan forcefully exposed Indian atrocities in Occupied Kashmir at the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly last...
Why was the 18th Amendment enacted? To ensure provincial autonomy promised in the constitution, to restore the constitution to its original form,...
Tax is a compulsory exaction of money from people by the state in exercise of its sovereign power. Owing to the constitutional evolution in England,...
On a recent visit to rural Punjab, it was a painful to see village after village falling to greed by the vandalizing acts of urbanization,...
The Parliamentary Committee constituted under Article 175 A of the Constitution has amended its rules and decided to interview persons recommended...
The recent Azadi March and then a 13-day sit-in at Peshawar Mor, Islamabad by Maulana Fazlur Rehman and his followers caused a huge inconvenience to...
Jurisprudence of the period when the Constitution is abrogated or put in abeyance needs to be ignored as a precedent for the reason that during that...
Pakistan’s abundant natural resources belong to the state and its people, and are held in public trust. Under the constitutional scheme, mineral...
The methods of appointment of judges have a direct impact upon both the integrity and the independence of judges. Weak appointments lower the status...
The wellbeing of the people and the economy are dependent upon an efficient legal and justice system. Legal reforms are, therefore, inevitable in...
There are multiple reasons for the gradual failure of almost all state institutions in Pakistan. But the more alarming thing is the attitude of our...
The age of empires is gone, and empires have been replaced by ‘big powers’, which are mostly democracies. The simplest definition of democracy...
The issue of the extension of the Rangers’ powers in Karachi has raised a serious constitutional question regarding the administrative...
