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Elections and the courts

IT was very heartening to see the Supreme Court putting its foot down and refusing to interfere in the schedule of the second phase of KP local government election fixed by the…

News, lies and IndianLeaks

To cover a lie, falsify the roots. The web of fake news is “almost” real. Fraud appears to be authentic. Certified by credible institutions the farce becomes the “seeming” truth.…

Trade with India: The facts

On Pakistan's India policy the latest controversy to surface is related to the question of trade. Between March 30 and April 2, several announcements were made by the government which…

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…

Time for a woman on the Supreme Court

The writer is the inaugural dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston Univeristy and former vice chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). One hundred…

As India Slides Into Majoritarianism

As India slides into majoritarianism

In the wake of the international fallout over deadly anti-Muslim riots in Delhi– following protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act–- the UN rights chief has moved the Indian Supreme Court…

When The Courts Let You Down

When the courts let you down

Justice Markandey Katju is a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. Long before he retired in 2011, he had been known for both his outspoken views and his…

A loose cannon supreme leader

Hell hath no fury like Nawaz Sharif ousted from power. Disqualified in a Panama Papers scandal related case and facing corruption references in a NAB accountability court, he has been…