Child marriage: laws, verdicts, solutions
Pakistan turned 77 this year, yet the children harbored by the fifth most populated country continue to be failed by the state. One of the many challenges in this regard…
Laws for good governance
The last decade witnessed major advances in the realm of public finance management (PFM) legislation in Pakistan. The passage of the 18th Amendment and consistent financial indiscipline highlighted the need…
Laws, protocols and trafficking
Every country in the world is affected by human trafficking either as a point of origin, transit or destination, and Pakistan is not an exception. The UNODC describes human trafficking…
Self-serving laws – II
On announcement of judgement on June 1, 2018, however, the ECP took diametrically opposite stand and decided to challenge the judgement in the Supreme Court. The federal government as well…
Self-serving laws – I
Uninterrupted decade of democracy [2008 to 2018], unprecedented in our political history entailing smooth transfer of power to elected representatives, according to the Constitution, is an occasion for national jubilation…
Implementation of consumer laws big challenge
There is a famous Latin term ‘Caveat venditor’ which means ‘let the seller beware’. This phrase is in stark contrast with the widely known and used contractual phrase ‘Caveat emptor’…
Labour laws and productivity
Labour laws should also spotlight on productivity rather than the dampening effects of archaic laws from the times of Industrial Revolution that have hampered rather than promoted productivity. Labour laws…
Scofflaws at work
A polity that runs out of the ability to generate new ideas has no option but to rehash old and failed ones. We’ve seen the odd piece about the presidential…
Harassment: laws unenforced
A few months ago I was walking from my house (in Islamabad) to the Markaz market (hardly a kilometer away) to get some groceries. It was still early afternoon and…
Laws and devolution
May Day or Labour Day is celebrated in remembrance of those striking workers who were killed by Chicago police on May 3 and 4, 1886. The event got wide attention…
