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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…

Credibility and judicial appointments

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…

No More Commissions Please

No more commissions please

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…

Addressing the larger issue

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 road to hell…

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…

Violence with impunity

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…

Who’s afraid of the truth?

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…

Guns of August…less bang than supposed

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 On Earth Should Nisar Resign?

Why on earth should Nisar resign?

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…