Judicial appointments
While celebrating the appointment of the first woman judge in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, we need to address the valid concerns regarding transparency and merit in judicial appointments to…
While celebrating the appointment of the first woman judge in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, we need to address the valid concerns regarding transparency and merit in judicial appointments to…
In his article in these pages , ‘Seniority v merit: a false binary’ (Aug 5), friend and elegant thinker about law and life, Salahuddin Ahmed who is presently the justly…
The tug of war on forming a commission under the Pakistan Commissions of Inquiry Act 1956 (the government has already written a letter to this effect) or under a special…
The final report of the General Election 2013 Inquiry Commission has had its fifteen minutes. This is an impressive feat. It can now join the pantheon of models of Pakistan’s…
THE two adversaries have finally agreed to come to the negotiating table. The ruling PML-N and the opposition PTI seem to have taken a step back from their hard-line positions.…
The government and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) have finally, after much toing and froing, come to an agreement to hold talks, with the Speaker National Assembly (NA) Ayaz Sadiq playing…
IN the summer of 1999, a politician’s son shot dead a young woman at a party in New Delhi, India, for refusing to serve him a drink. A model, the…
Most of us know why there is so much fear of the truth in Pakistan. This is one of the reasons why many believe we will never quite know what…
The Panama phase in the high politics of our perennially-charged country is over. This much is evident from the start of the twin agitations launched by the two political entities…
Why indeed? If the one-man judicial commission comprising My Lord Justice Faez Isa has exposed the glaring shortcoming of various agencies and the total incompetence of the man supposed to…