Qisas & diyat laws
IN case after case of murder and severe bodily harm to innocent people, the perpetrators are often given a clean chit by Pakistan’s courts. The accused, even more emboldened, returns…
The force of law
Pakistan has the misfortune of being periodically bashed by the international media. Recently, it has been the uproar over the revival of the death penalty. The European Union, UN Office…
Laws of punishment
The retrogressive slide in Pakistan just got more pronounced with the Farzana Parveen case. The 25-year-old pregnant woman bludgeoned to death in front of the Lahore High Court fuelled the…
Justice and the FIR
While the poor in Pakistan have always been quite painfully aware of how lethal a first information report (FIR) can be, it is the elite who only learn of its…
Buying your path to freedom
“I can’t believe they can get away with this. I’m toast, right? They’re going to drag me into this prison’s courtyard and stone me to death, aren’t they?,” said Raymond…
The land of death
The number of unnecessary, needless, trivial deaths, which take place in our country, are alarming. This is part of a changed trend noted over the last decade or perhaps a…
Forgiving a murder
The recent order of the Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, which acquitted the brother of social media star Qandeel Baloch, has once again brought the discussion of the Qisas and…
Does anyone care about life?
Another brutal murder – this time, an 11-year-old, who was raped, tortured and dumped in the washroom of an empty I-10 Metro Bus station. A precious life tragically cut short…
Darkness from a distance
With time, darkness tends to fade. We forget about terrible events in our lives, our countries, around the globe – at least to some degree. But as was said for…
Rule of injustice
For decades, we have been seeing injustice imposed upon people who are poor and without wealth or influence – the factors which almost always go together in making an individual…
