Symbol judgment: what went wrong?
The Supreme Court has pronounced its judgment taking away the PTI’s election symbol. Judges are human and can make mistakes, this decision being an example. Certainly, the millions who witnessed…
Indian media and the war on Muslims
Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages, said Spiro Agnew. I wonder what the late US vice president would have thought of Indian media, especially…
Faizabad judgment
The apex court has issued a strong verdict in the 2017 Faizabad sit-in case. The court had taken up the matter as a suo-motu case and had reserved judgment in…
A question of judgment
The recent judgment issued by the Lahore High Court (LHC) in the case of Khadija Siddiqi, the young woman who was stabbed 23 times in May 2016 when she had…
Libel and media
ON July 23, 1999, two of Britain’s very distinguished judges, Lord Justice Sedley and Justice Collins, made important observations on freedom of speech in a case concerning two women preachers…
Gender in the media today
Panelists speak at the launch of 'Through the Gender lens' on Monday, December 10, 2010 in Islamabad. -Photo by Dawn.com/Zeresh John With honour killings and acid attacks making frequent headlines,…
The PTI’s Shahbaz Sharif
There is only one requirement for Imran Khan’s pick for the chief minister of Punjab: s/he has to be better than Shahbaz Sharif. Better administration, better optics, and better at…
The warp and woof of morality
Before I sat down to write these words to meet my deadline for this column, I had drafted in my mind a rather emotional and impressionistic piece on my sojourn…
Save our songs
When we think of public performance of music, what comes to our mind is live concerts by artists. Live concerts are an important contributor to an artist’s income and goodwill.…
Basic structure, again
EVERY few years, questions regarding the limitations of parliament’s power to amend the Constitution, and the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction to review, and if necessary, strike down constitutional amendments, become issues…
