Tag: justice

Every year November 16 is observed in India as National Press Day. The Press Council of India, of which I ...

The UN's 27th Annual Conference of the Parties (COP27) took place in the idyllic Egyptian resort town of Sharm El ...

Justice Fakhrunissa Khokhar was first inducted as LHC in 1994. She passed away on November 5 2022. https://twitter.com/SumZaidi/status/1588802528489394176 In an ...

Feminism is neither an imperial constituency nor illusory cup of tea for any monopolising group in civil society. To me ...

Justice Qazi Faez Isa of the Supreme Court has urged Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial to expressly convene ...

Views and convictions centered on menstruation differ across societies, but remain an unthinkable topic to talk about in the Global ...

Regarding the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, it may be argued that airing the internal disagreements ...

In 2008, after a long trial full of tribulations, 11 rioters were convicted of raping Bilkis Bano during the 2002 ...

With five seats lying vacant in the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC), and the resistance of the members of the ...

Rape is a non-compoundable offense in Pakistan. This means that an out-of-court settlement or compromise between the victim/survivor and the ...

Pakistani politics has always been predictable. It’s a country where politicians have to suffer to be in power. They have ...

One of the few positives to have emerged from the chaotically mismanaged Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) meeting of July ...

Undoubtedly now the battle ground is open for a full-throttle lawyers’ movement that has been thrust upon society by the ...

Delay in justice is a serious challenge facing Pakistan. There were 1.5 million pending cases and 2.6 million new cases ...

43 years ago in April 1979, a former prime minster of Pakistan, Z.A. Bhutto, was executed for allegedly ordering the ...

Questions are raised when power is vested in a single institution or office in a non-transparent manner. In Pakistan, the ...

Although women comprise 48.54 percent of the total population in Pakistan, their perspective is missing in national policies, laws and ...

The judiciary hates it when criticised in political rallies or on social media. But time and again the judiciary ends ...

The people of Pakistan see entering into litigation and courts much as one would enter Dante Alighieri’s Gates of Hell, ...

It has been observed a number of times around the world that being from a dynasty or belonging to a ...

Three great luminaries of Pakistan’s superior judiciary are Justice Alvin Robert Cornelius, Justice Dorab Patel and Justice Bhagwan Das, ironically ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan, in a split 3-2 decision, has stated that in case of a vote in a ...

If the existing political and constitutional morass bedeviling the country was not serious enough, President Dr Alvi has written a ...

The PTI’s much-vaunted three-and-a-half-year sheen of moral rectitude and high ethical standards is losing its shine with embarrassing rapidity. But ...

The country was at the brink of another doctrine, more severe and more adverse than the doctrine of necessity and ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has rejected a plea for early elections in the Punjab Assembly, filed by PML-N leader ...