Global crackdown on corruption?
The powerful banking network, real estate market and businesses of the flourishing economies of the west have long been criticized for providing safe havens to ease into their system ill-gotten…
AI-powered justice
ARTIFICIAL intelligence could revolutionise Pakistan’s legal system, as recognised by Judge Mohammad Munir of the Mandi Bahauddin district court in his detailed order, in a case of pre-arrest bail for…
The wrath of blood
It is difficult to make much sense of what is happening around us within the precincts of logic and reason. But not only is this enactment of desertion and desecration…
The fight for welfare
The Lawyers Welfare and Protection Act, 2023 was passed by the National Assembly on March 29, 2023 – making waves across the country and capturing the attention of lawyers, jurists…
Russia ‘crosses’ new lines in crackdown on Putin’s enemies?
With virtually all the Kremlin’s opponents already jailed or in exile, and liberal press outlets and human rights groups forced to shut down, it might have appeared that years of…
Can the disease be the cure?
There is such a thing as a false binary. But the fact that crimes have already been committed against the people of Pakistan – whose will and authority is enshrined…
The 24th and 25th amendments
The 24th Amendment was tabled in 2017; then-president Mamnoon Hussain authorized it on December 22, 2017. This was the last year of the third PML-N government, and its leader Nawaz…
A government in contempt
Those who thought that sanity would return to the ranks of the government, and that they would take the requisite steps to facilitate the holding of elections for the Punjab…
Zero waste
On December 14, 2022 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution at its 77th session to declare March 30 as the International Day of Zero Waste, to be observed…
The meaning of misogyny
We have always been an essentially misogynist and patriarchal society. Perhaps the two go together. Abusive language almost always contains comments about women, and these are the words most often…
