When the courts surrender?
During the devastation of WW-II Winston Churchill said, “Thank God. If the courts are working, nothing can go wrong”. When all defences failed, justice prevailed. To uphold human freedom courts…
Making the NFC work
The recent demands from multilateral institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank to revisit the National Finance Commission (NFC) Award have ignited a fresh debate on resource distribution…
SC appointments
Judiciary, in Pakistan and elsewhere, has become from being the least potent branch to the most potent branch over the years. Judicial power, with the charter of rights placed in…
Ex post facto accountability
In times, when a major feud between two contestants was settled through a sword fight, if one of them fell down in the fight with the sword dislodged, the opponent…
Not so weak
WHEN America’s founders were mulling over the constitution, the judiciary was to be the weakest of the government’s three branches: a gaggle of wise men that decided cases and avoided…
Between power and prestige
Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar has attracted attention of late – for mixed reasons. It started with his speech in Quetta on the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on…
The ‘beyond reproach’ elite
The question that bothers all humans is whether anyone of them can claim immunity. Unless we deny the cosmic reality- to err is human - none can claim having unquestionable…
