This November, in the twilight of his career, one of the best legal minds of Pakistan, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, headed a bench that wandered into unchartered territory; into a judicial realm where no judge’s ...
Civil-military relations (CMR) have always remained at the center of Pakistani politics and polity. The pattern, degree and scale of CMR is, however, context-specific. During the 1950s (pre-martial law period), the pattern of civil-military relations ...
It was an interesting day in the history of civil-military relations and the judiciary in Pakistan. The Supreme Court’s decision regarding the extension of Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa and the government’s procedural gaffes therein ...
In light of the recent debate about there being two systems of justice following the court’s decision to allow Nawaz Sharif to go abroad, Abdul Quyyum Khan Kundi differentiates between law and justice, how law ...
When Prime Minister Imran Khan requested Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa to dispel the perception of double standards of law in the country, he was making a grave mistake. The changing perceptions and impressions about ...
Supreme Court Chief Justice has rebuked Prime Minister Imran Khan for his criticism against the judiciary following the Lahore High Court decision to allow Nawaz Sharif to go abroad. Following LHC’s decision to allow Nawaz ...
Umer Farooq describes the nature of power struggles in Pakistan and asks why such struggles occur in Islamabad after every decade. He attributes this situation to the lack of national cohesion and an absence of ...
Islamabad Justice Qazi Faez Isa has said in Supreme Court that the presidential reference filed against him was part of a ‘witch-hunt’ aimed at ‘silencing judges’. According to a report in Express Tribune, in a ...
On 17th January, 2019, judicial regime of Chief Justice Saqib Nisar came to an end. His tenure lasted for 748 days in the office and was marked by judicial overreach, utter absence of judicial restraint, ...
Lawyers play a vital role as part of the justice system, but unfortunately, in Pakistan, some seem to have gone rogue. It seems that those who pledge to be the protectors of justice and vow ...