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The fear of man

In April of 2017, Indonesian artist, Adrian Syaf was fired from his job at Marvel Comics for slipping the numbers 5:51 and 212 into issue #1 of ‘X-Men Gold’. The…

Scandalising the court

WHENEVER freedom of speech becomes a little too free for the taste of the bench, it summons to its defence a very peculiar and archaic offence — that of ‘scandalising…

Trifling with governance

OUR administration’s obsession with preserving colonial institutions is truly mind-boggling. Every now and then a post-Partition administrative change is abandoned in favour of a colonial period model. When, some time…

Grassroots democracy

About two years ago, when Prime Minister Imran Khan was elected, in his first speech to the nation, he promised to foster a culture of grassroots democracy all over Pakistan.…

While you weren’t looking

Systemic injustices that go unpunished, particularly when committed by powerful states and their allies, have fostered a global culture of reluctant acceptance of clear violations of international law. Where there…

Public power is sacred trust

All public power is a sacred trust, which is to be exercised fairly, justly, honestly and in accordance with law-Supreme Court in Workers' Party Pakistan & Others v Federation of…

Beyond Land Reforms

Beyond land reforms

“We are landless haris and have been in this poverty quagmire for several decades because we know nothing but agriculture. We lack the education and skills required to work outside…

Court revokes PMC ordinance, restores PMDC

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday restored the dissolved Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) by setting aside the presidential ordinance that had replaced the PMDC with the Pakistan…