Delivery of justice
Weak knees for such aggressive posture
Who will guard the guards? The people. The judiciary seems not to be at ease since the establishment of...
Pakistan’s frail judicial structure
Getting weaker still
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better;...
Who is more sovereign: the parliament or the judiciary?
Extreme views
The national assembly and the senate of Pakistan passed the 21st constitutional amendment on January 6, 2015, after which the Army Act was...
INTERVIEW: ‘Parliament cannot unmake the constitution’ –Justice (retd) Wajihuddin Ahmed
If Iftikhar’s Court was too aggressive, the present court is too passive
Much, if not all, of the momentum generated after the Peshawar tragedy has...
Haveli Nau Nihal Singh
Another jewel worth saving
The bell rang and the students thronged the corridors, rushing towards the huge carved main gate of the school. The scene...
Ruling from behind
Did the army step up because of civilian failures?
If Pakistan’s history had anything to say about it, it would tell everyone that the current...
Soft coup, hard coup
Déjà vu?
“The Pakistani establishment is against every leader who has people’s mandate behind them. The establishment likes leaders like Malik Meraj Khalid, Moeen Qureshi,...
Are we heading towards a ‘hard coup’ in Pakistan?
Return to proto-democracy inevitable?
Since independence in 1947, Pakistan’s powerful military has directly ruled the country for more than three decades. This has entrenched the...
Supermen of Pakistan
Another coup on the way?
To an average kid on the street, our army is composed of supermen who are always there to defend us...
An invisible coup
Is the state determining the tune the civilian government must dance to
29 August, 2014: Rumour had it that a ‘soft coup’ had taken place...
Pakistan: Military control 2.0
The most important question: civ-mil relations
Pakistan’s transition to democracy, pronounced by Gen Musharraf’s ouster, was followed by a difficult civil-military balance equation. Though Musharraf’s...
Interview: ‘Pakistan at war within, isolated abroad’ –Tariq Azim Khan
Failure is not an option for Pakistan
Once again the ruling party finds much on its plate it would rather do without. The fight against...
The Golden Mosque of Lahore
National heritage left to decay
In the hustle and bustle of the dazzling Kashmiri Bazaar one cannot ignore the majestic, glittering monument the Sunehri Masjid...
Does local government matter?
The base of the pyramid
The 2001 Local Government Ordinance called for the devolution of the government down to the district levels. This meant that...
Devolution: Why not?
Why not cater the locals through local government system?
This is common knowledge that Pakistan is a democratic state per se. However, if we look...
Empowering the weak and the meek
The need to develop parallel delivery systems
With ever growing population and problems, devolution and decentralisation of power from center to the provinces and from...
What they say
Salman Abid (Political analyst)
Provincial governments are the greatest hurdle towards constituting local governments. There will be no future for local governments till they get...
