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Laws and rights in transition

AS Martin Luther King once said, “An unjust law is no law at all.” In recent years, Pakistan has witnessed constitutional changes and amendm­e­nts whose effects have rippled across the…

Litigants non grata

NOT all persons go to court seeking justice. Some do so with the deliberate and concomitant intent of frustrating the ends of justice. The judicial apparatus, given its rigours, protracted…

Justice within reach

LAST week in Islamabad, something rare happened. Judges, police officers, prosecutors, lawyers, policymakers, and rights experts gathered: not in the usual posture of mutual suspicion or institutional self-preservation, but in…