Defining judicial misconduct
SINCE the presidential references filed against Justice Faez Isa and Justice Karim Agha earlier this year, the process of judicial accountability in Pakistan is once again in the spotlight. A…
Crime of extra-judicial killing
Last Wednesday, this paper carried an editorial on staged encounters and lamented the fact that the “deaths of suspects in police shoot-outs are an acceptable part of routine life today”.…
Judicial accountability
“The real threats to independence of judiciary are from within — stemming from the personality of the judge himself”. — Justice Asif Saeed Khosa. AN interesting aspect of media and political…
Year of judicial accountability
Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali has declared the year 2015-2016 as the year of judicial accountability. Judicial independence has long been a flashpoint in Pakistan, as illustrated by the movement…
The Model Town tragedy
The Model Town inquiry was an opportunity to lay bare the invidious excesses of a predatory state and the pernicious responses of a predatory society. It has been lost. Given…
A self-created storm
The storm generated by Husain Haqqani’s article really belongs to a tea-cup. But then again, not quite. It is true that what he wrote only added more detail to what…
Inquiry reports
In many a postcolonial country, leaders have adopted institutions inherited from the British while also denuding them of their soul and spirit — among them, inquiries into cases of gross…
Human rights under threat
Day after tomorrow, the people of Pakistan will join the rest of humankind in celebrating Human Rights Day. The government too will indulge in ritualistic rhetoric. An honest approach should…
Accountability moves
Behold Pakistan’s latest sporting craze: the game of accountability one-upmanship. One Sharif called for ‘across-the-board accountability’ and was reported to have removed a number of military officers on corruption charges;…
Yet another murder
Where is the outrage brigade now? Was it not enough that a person who was approaching the highest court in the province was beaten to death within touching distance of…
