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International obligations

IN this age of globalisation, nations are voluntarily giving up a part of their legislative sovereignty to supranational entities like the European Union (EU) and global agencies like the UN.…

Laws cannot be inhuman

When "law is blind" is taken literally, it spells trouble. Laws are supposed to be a set of rules made by a state for keeping the peace and security of…

Laws And Devolution

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…

Rethinking international diplomacy

Pakistan is facing an economic crunch. Many analysts used the world ICU to describe the state of economy when the new government took over. A patient in an intensive care…

Two debatable draft laws

PARLIAMENT is currently seized of two significant bills, one for punishing the crime of causing enforced disappearance and the other for the trial of blasphemy and other offences under the…

Need for simple tax laws

In 2001, the General Pervez Musharraf-Shaukat Aziz duo decided to promulgate a new income tax law on the dictates of International Monetary Fund (IMF). The move was opposed by us…

Existential Flaws

Existential flaws

The anomaly of Mian Nawaz Sharif’s Avenfield Apartments, as it appears from the incremental falling in place of the puzzle, is why something as old as from1993-96 went unnoticed until…

Strengthening AML laws

The volume of suspicious transaction reports submitted by banks and others across key financial centres is said to be growing at 11% per year, with over 2.6 million reports expected…