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…
Elegant justice
HARDLY a week goes by when the inequities of life and the law that women suffer do not receive press attention. A recent reading of an old judgement took me…
New faces of justice
Imagine a Pakistan where 350,000 complaints were resolved in just eight months of 2025 – at zero cost, with 96 per cent implementation of recommendations and under 2.0 per cent…
Symbolism over justice
In September 2025, the UK formally recognised the State of Palestine, a gesture hailed by some as historic. Yet it is a hollow, belated move after more than a century…
Justice betrayed
“Nothing is more disgraceful than for a man to be convicted of falsehood”,wrote Marcus Tullius Cicero in his celebrated work De Officiis, a treatise composed in 44 BC for moral…
Peace and justice
THE Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity by 2030. Achieving these ideals…
Justice reimagined
THE Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention & Punishment) Act, 2022, signified a paradigm shift in a centuries-old relationship between law enforcement and torture. Colonial-style, force-based policing had remained an unfortunate,…
Justice within reach
LAST week in Islamabad, something rare happened. Judges, police officers, prosecutors, lawyers, policymakers, and rights experts gathered: not in the usual posture of mutual suspicion or institutional self-preservation, but in…
How the justice system fails the working class
Muhammad Asif Javed Jutt did not just take his own life — he exposed the slow, systematic murder of justice in Pakistan. His self-immolation outside the Lahore High Court was…
