Justice Markandey Katju and Advocate Janhvi Prakash go over cases heard by the Indian Supreme Court and argue that it has repeatedly failed to protect the fundamental rights of the Indian people. Thou art weighed ...
“The judge has explained the quantum of punishment for committing blasphemy in the whole judgment, instead of explaining the quantum of the evidence required for awarding the death sentence”, writes Bakhtavar Jaffri. Our law of ...
Ali Gibran and Zaineb Majoka, Fulbright fellows, write about the ordeal of another Fulbright Scholar and lecturer Junaid Hafeez, who was falsely accused of blasphemy and has been languishing in solitary confinement for more than six years. ...
The ruling party faces a moral and political test in its handling of its ally Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) chief and MNA Akhtar Mengal. The demand from Mengal’s end is clear: four women who were ...
After three days of intense drama, the Supreme Court of Pakistan conditionally allowed the incumbent Army Chief to continue in his office for six months. The court has directed the government to take the matter ...
We sat in Ahsan’s dingy small room. Its formerly whitewashed walls were stained with grime. Eight evidently disturbed Baloch students lined these grime ridden walls. I tried to hide behind Ahsan, as others in the ...
Those feeling wronged by the LHC decision are also conveniently forgetting what happened before the case reached the court. After months of taking an avowed position of “not giving an NRO” and “no relief without ...
The good cheer was overshadowed by those who failed to distinguish between worship rituals and day-to-day survival in a nation where religion is employed as an instrument of state power, writes Miranda Husain Kaptaan must ...
A few days back I wrote an article with an appeal to my Kashmiri brothers and sisters. In this article I mentioned that the restrictions in Kashmir for over 60 days after abrogation of Article ...
When faced with challenges, the judiciary in Pakistan has traditionally operated within four arenas of influence at the macro level, that is, the arenas of appeasement, activism, evasion, and furtherance. For some, the judiciary’s greatest ...
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