Elegant justice
HARDLY a week goes by when the inequities of life and the law that women suffer do not receive press attention. A recent reading of an old judgement took me…
New faces of justice
Imagine a Pakistan where 350,000 complaints were resolved in just eight months of 2025 – at zero cost, with 96 per cent implementation of recommendations and under 2.0 per cent…
Symbolism over justice
In September 2025, the UK formally recognised the State of Palestine, a gesture hailed by some as historic. Yet it is a hollow, belated move after more than a century…
Justice within reach
Justice in Pakistan is too often defined by the judgments of higher courts. For the ordinary citizen, however, justice is what they experience in a district courtroom, in a tehsil…
Justice betrayed
“Nothing is more disgraceful than for a man to be convicted of falsehood”,wrote Marcus Tullius Cicero in his celebrated work De Officiis, a treatise composed in 44 BC for moral…
Future of justice
Public trust in the justice system is not shaped only by the judgments of higher courts. It is built, day by day, through the experiences of ordinary citizens in the…
Justice without jurisprudence
If the sheer number of accountability offices were proof of justice, Pakistan might look like one of the best-governed countries in the world. From the Wafaqi Mohtasib to FOSPAH, from…
Justice in decay
FOR many litigants and junior lawyers, City Courts is their first experience with Pakistan’s judicial system. It is the court of first instance: where rights are first asserted, arrests first…
Peace and justice
THE Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of 17 goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity by 2030. Achieving these ideals…
To resist injustice
Egyptian-born Omar El Akkad had studied in the United States and been 10 years a journalist when, in the summer of 2021, he became an American citizen. Covering the War…
