Drug giants slug it out in the ‘world’s pharmacy’
Global drug giants have been fighting to defend their inventions in Indian courts, a battle that could cut supplies of affordable, essential drugs for millions of poor people and impact…
Shattered dreams
Apart from being the day of the Lahore Resolution, March 23 has, and should have, another significance for us. On that day, in 1956, the country, hitherto governed under the…
The legacy of the PPP government
The Pakistan People’s Party got a monumental mansion built in Lahore for its supreme leader towards the close of its tenure (2008-2013), which, if doesn’t outdo, by all accounts matches…
State property concerns
`Can governments` dealings with the assets and properties vested in it [government property] give rise to a claim that such dealings violate fundamental rights? `Can government be restrained from dealing…
Privatising free education
Article 25-A of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973, declares that “the state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to 16 years in…
Time for patience
There has been much relief and joy at the government’s recent completion of a full five-year term and the announcement of an election date. The transfer of power from one…
The general’s dream
In an informal meeting with a group of senior journalists, Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani insisted, “The army does not have any intention of derailing the…
Beyond the IWT
The partial award by the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) in the Indus Waters Kishenganga arbitration case, permitting India to proceed with the construction of the Kishenganga hydroelectric project, has…
A man called Azad Hussain
One learns from unlikely sources. A person who unfailingly gave me pause for thought is Azad Hussain. He was a man of humble means but was blessed with the ability…
Ministers are trustees
The law has developed unforeseen strength to correct a wayward state and punish its minions, the ministers. The law on both is distinct and separate, albeit related. Dread of punishment…
