Rampaging lawyers
In most countries, one of the worst things you can do is to kill, hurt or even impede a police officer in the discharge of his duties. You can be…
Lawyers vs the justice system
The Punjab Bar Council convened a summit of likeminded lawyers in Lahore on October 15, 2016. The participants of this convention included representatives of the Supreme Court Bar Association, the…
Invisible lawyers
The image of a lawyer most widely held in the Pakistani imagination is monochromatic. And by this I do not mean that it is as characteristically black and white as…
US anti-trust enforcers could undo Valeant lens monopoly: lawyers
US antitrust regulators could push Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc to sell part of its specialty contact lens materials business so it would lose the market dominance it built through two…
Taming of the lawyers
In recent years, reports of lawyers taking the law into their own hands, harassing judges and going on strike for frivolous excuses have become commonplace. Pakistan’s superior judiciary has, however,…
On lawyers, laws & courts
The need for laws arose when, many millennia ago, some humans, for no good reason, acquired power over other humans, and divided the human race into classes of workers and…
Our lawyers
My first encounter with the highhandedness of the police goes back to the student days. I saw my friends, student political workers, picked up from the vicinity of the NED…
The unfulfilled promise of the lawyers’ movement
Today Pakistan stands at the crossroads mired with poor governance and a decline in the well-being of its population. The youthful and galvanised future that civil society had started to…
Why lawyers call for agitation?
The sudden call by SCBA President Qazi Anwar for a countrywide strike by lawyers has raised many eyebrows in the country, and for the right reasons. The elected government has…
