Justice for Justice Isa?
THE judicial history of our blighted land is replete with verdicts in favour of usurpers and against elected civilian leaders, including several prime ministers — and have seen their execution…
Justice on trial
THE Supreme Court may have pushed back an attempt to undermine the independence of the judiciary by quashing a malicious presidential reference against a fellow judge, but the threat is…
Judging CJP Nisar
In our culture it is impolite to judge those who pass away. We only seek forgiveness for them. It is also petty to not hold any punches when someone is…
Justice for Houbara Bustards
By the time this article appears in the press, some 1,000 Houbara Bustards will have been officially annihilated by our friends from the Arab world. These massacres, most obsequiously facilitated…
Thank you, Justice Isa
Dec 16 has become a source of multiple reminders of the ability of Pakistanis, or let’s say the handful in charge of deciding the nation’s destiny, to cause infinite self-harm.…
The Chaudhry Nisar factor
The interior minister appeared in a combative mood while responding to the damning indictment of him and his ministry by the inquiry commission report at the presser last week on…
What Nisar’s presser and black goats tell us
What do Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s seminal report on the Quetta carnage, the interior minister’s ‘combative’ presser, the Chitral crash, the burning to death of guests at the Regent Plaza…
The 27th amendment
THE cat is out of the bag. The government plans to pass another amendment to the Constitution. After days of secret negotiations, the draft of the proposed amendment was presented…
A judicial history of the SJC
On October 18, 2025, the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) of Pakistan issued a press release mentioning some complaints but without specifying which judges’ cases had been dismissed and which remained…
Two wrongs don’t make a right
“Nothing happens in a vacuum” as the saying goes. Much ink has been spilled discussing the Constitution (Twenty-Sixth Amendment) Act, 2024. Per its critics, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment has delivered a…
