Military courts
PAKISTAN is set to try civilians in military courts for violence committed on May 9 in the wake of the arrest of former premier Imran Khan. The United Nations High…
Domestic inquiries
IN industrial and commercial establishments and hospitals, various investigations are conducted to ascertain the causes behind undesirable events and initiate appropriate action. These may comprise investigations into the sudden breakdown…
Sri Lanka has an IMF deal, now it courts China and India
Sri Lanka’s International Monetary Fund bailout plan could be a turning point in its worst economic crisis, but far-from-stable politics and a need to get debt relief from competing powers…
International courts ‘more needed than ever’, 25 years after Srebrenica
Twenty-five years after the Srebrenica massacre international courts like those which tried the perpetrators of the slaughter face an uncertain future but are needed more than ever, experts say. The…
What is the domestic violence law?
The opposition to the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill 2021 exposes both the societal paradox that violence in one form or another is necessary to sustain our family structure,…
A domestic, not foreign, challenge
Is the situation in Afghanistan a foreign policy challenge or a domestic policy conundrum? At the heart of the conversation initiated by Ejaz Haider in ‘The Friday Times’ is really…
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…
US domestic spying controversy complicates cybersecurity efforts
The Obama administration's cybersecurity agenda, which includes expanding the military's Cyber Command and beefing up protection for critical infrastructure, faces more intense scrutiny after two vast domestic surveillance programs were…
Navigating economic diplomacy-II
Some scholars argue that investment treaties were signed by developing countries not because they expected any substantial benefits or were somehow pressured into signing them by the developed countries, but…
Nationalise the IPPs
In Gordium, the capital of Phrygia (ancient Greece), legend had it that whoever could untie an oxcart tied by a complex knot would rule all Asia. Famously, in 333 BCE,…
