The value of life
We have seen multiple cases in our country in which people have died or been killed, without any penalty for the murderer or any action by the state. The situation…
Judges’ lapses
“LORD Woolf cannot quite make up his mind whether he is a liberal reformer or the shop steward for the only trade union in the country whose members wear wigs…
Democracy in contention
DEMOCRACY has been in contention over the past fortnight or so. The honours so far have been claimed by both the disorganised democratic camp and the organised, well-oiled establishment. The…
Of civil services reform
IN an article contributed to a publication of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Dr Ishrat Husain has thrown considerable light on the objectives and scope of the civil services reform undertaken…
Accountable to no one
What the Broadsheet case has exposed about the workings of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is just the tip of the iceberg. The Bureau’s two-decade history is full of examples…
The endless spiral
IT has been said before, in the recent past, in this space and it bears repeating today. This never ends. This lurching from one crisis to the next is, and…
Activism & restraint
FOR a judge to seek to be wiser than the law is to do the very thing forbidden by wise laws. But judicial activism has come to stay in all…
We will all be nomads now
More than one million nomads of Jammu and Kashmir, mostly from the Gujjar and Bakkarwal communities, who prefer to live in temporary sheds or mud houses in the forests and…
Re-election to UNHRC
In the middle of October this year, Pakistan was re-elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which works globally for the promotion and protection of human…
A journey backwards
In August, the PTI government completed its second year in office. The occasion warrants an assessment of its performance. What frightens me as a citizen of this country is the…
