Constitutional democracy and rule of law
What title best describes the form of government envisioned by the Pakistan’s founders, and crystallised in the Constitution of 1973? The question may have originated in the realm of political…
Why Pakistan needs a Constitutional Court
Given the timing of the proposed constitutional amendment and our traditional rhetorical approach to constitutional discourse, it is certainly easy to look past the legitimate benefits of establishing a Constitutional…
Military’s constitutional role
WHILE expressing his innocent wonder over why our armed forces are “often made the subject of criticism”, Gen Bajwa, our former army chief, recently conceded that this may just have something to…
Constitutional abyss
“The framers had inserted Article 184(3) intending that the jurisdiction shall be exercised to ensure that the fundamental rights of the weak, vulnerable and marginalised classes are protected.” — Justice…
Decolonising the law
TOWARDS the end of World War II, the idea of ‘decolonisation’ with its attendant images of freedom fighters, ouster of the English colonisers and creation of independent nation states had…
Is a Constitutional Court the answer?
After the government failed to have its Constitution Amendment Bill secretly rubber-stamped at midnight by oblivious parliamentarians; some in the ruling coalition rushed to disassociate themselves. They admitted to mistakes…
Constitutional amendments
IT is not a cliché but constitutions are, in fact, the glue that normally hold a country and its peoples bounded to oneness. As such a life-giving source to statehood,…
Culture of un-constitutionalism
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” — Carl Jung THERE is no ambiguity about the foundations of the 1973…
A fatal flaw
AS the dust settles on the change in government in Islamabad, existing answers as to why these events unfolded in the manner and speed that they did remain unsatisfactory. There’s…
Constitutional frauds
“Pity the nation that is led by those who laugh at the law little realising that the law shall have the last laugh.” — Justice Asif Saeed Khosa THE vote…
