Criminalising free speech
IF post-2016 were the years when Peca’s misuse against those exercising their right to freedom of speech and press freedom was tested, 2025 was the year when the gaps in…
Princes of procedure
AT times, judges are put on the spot. It might be that the positions they have consistently stated throughout their career on a certain issue are on the line in…
Criminal silence over genocide
More than two million besieged people are facing the catastrophe of famine with barely any food trickling in. But the international community has failed to stop the worst genocide in…
Practice and procedure
The Supreme Court has given its findings on the much-debated Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023. Although the detailed judgment is awaited, still, the short order has said that…
A case of criminal politicisation
For long, Pakistan has been faced with external challenges. But the challenge from within is a new phenomenon which has raised its head in a loathsome manner. If allowed to…
Revamp the criminal justice system
The inadequacies of the criminal justice system were witnessed in the recent past when a woman was molested in the vicinity of Minar-e-Pakistan. The police have arrested more than a…
Criminal justice
Our new chief justice is one of the best criminal law judges in Pakistan. He will confront a poor performance record within Pakistan’s criminal justice system. Pakistan was ranked in…
Police reforms: missed opportunity
IN May 2018, when public confidence in the criminal justice system (CJS) was visibly eroding, nine retired and seven serving inspectors general of police, under the aegis of the Law…
Police reforms: missed opportunity
IN May 2018, when public confidence in the criminal justice system (CJS) was visibly eroding, nine retired and seven serving inspectors general of police, under the aegis of the Law…
Consent, rewritten
There are moments when a legal system changes – not through amendment, legislation, or constitutional rupture, but through a single act of reasoning that quietly shifts what the law is…
