Special courts and sexual violence
In the backdrop of the Lahore motorway rape case, President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi exercised his presidential powers under Clause (1) of Article 89 of the Constitution of the…
Israeli courts
The struggle to save the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah from ethnic cleansing by state-backed Israeli settler organisations continued this week in the Israeli Supreme Court. During the…
Courts for businesses
The World Bank’s Doing Business Report (2019) ranked Pakistan at 156 out of 190 economies on the ‘enforcing contracts’ indicator, based on the cost and quality of judicial processes, and…
District judiciary
The district judiciary is the backbone of the national judiciary, and deals with the legal disputes of the people at the grassroots level. However, to strengthen our justice system, the…
Districts in decay
Of the three tiers of government in Pakistan the lowest one is the revenue/administrative districts. This, sadly, also remains the lowest priority in the allocation of state resources or in…
New districts
THE de-notification of Lehri’s district status and inclusion of Rakhshan as a new administrative division in Balochistan, along with the notification of Kolai Pallas Kohistan as another district in KP,…
Courts and panchayats
The people of Pakistan often use courts and the legal system to inflict misery upon their ‘enemies’ – and upon themselves. They resolve most of their disputes out of court,…
Hybrid courts
Fata gets democracy; Pakistan will get military courts — same decision-makers, two very different decisions. How the hell do you reconcile the two? The easiest answer is what the boys…
Military courts: a defence
On the one hand, we should all get behind the Pakistan Army and the entire political class because they are now seemingly united to fight the long overdue war against…
The case for a constitutional court
Parliamentary legislative competence is the authority of a parliament to amend or repeal laws and the constitution. Under Article 239, Pakistan’s parliament can alter the constitution with a two-thirds majority.…
