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Monday November 04, 2024
Zafarullah Khan

  • April 06, 2023

    Judicial reforms: now or never(Part–II)

    Under the social contract, the people are the real sovereign. In our polity, the balance of power has totally shifted towards the judiciary that...

  • April 05, 2023

    Judicial reforms: Now or never (Part-I)

    The constitution is the body of doctrines and practices that form the fundamental organizing principles of a political state. The general idea of a...

  • August 23, 2020

    For a new system of accountability

    A Persian proverb says that if a mason tilts the first brick, the building will be raised tilted right to the stars. This is true about the National...

  • July 23, 2020

    A state which dwarfs its men

    An honourable bench of our august Supreme Court consisting of Mr Justice Maqbool Baqar and Mr Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel, begin their...

  • March 08, 2020

    Women shall have similar rights

    Women make up half of humanity but, unfortunately attitude of many Muslims towards women is not truly Islamic; it is conservative and medieval. This...

  • February 08, 2018

    Withering the authority of the people

    The Social Contract doctrine was developed by Thomas Hobbes John Locke and JJ Rousseau to explain that it is the people who have set up state...

  • June 08, 2017

    ‘A judge who opens his mouth …..’ (II)

    3. Indian Experience In Indian jurisdiction, in KP Singh vs High Court of H.P. and LPA No. 163 of 2009, it is held: ‘Integrity according to...

  • June 08, 2017

    ‘A judge who opens his mouth …..’ (II)

    3. Indian Experience In Indian jurisdiction, in KP Singh vs High Court of H.P. and LPA No. 163 of 2009, it is held: ‘Integrity according to...

  • June 08, 2017

    ‘A judge who opens his mouth …..’

    My beloved Greek philosopher, Plato wrote in The Republic: ‘Justice is Virtue and Virtue is Justice’. The statement mesmerised me till...

  • June 07, 2017

    ‘A judge who opens his mouth …..’

    My beloved Greek philosopher, Plato wrote in The Republic: ‘Justice is Virtue and Virtue is Justice’. The statement mesmerised me till...

  • June 07, 2017

    ‘A judge who opens his mouth …..’ (I)

    My beloved Greek philosopher, Plato wrote in The Republic: ‘Justice is Virtue and Virtue is Justice’. The statement mesmerised me till...