Tag: Judiciary

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Tuesday underlined the need to curb the menace of corruption in lower judiciary, as it...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday said there was no threat to democracy in the country in the presence of an...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Monday that the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) government believes on the supremacy of judiciary...

Respecting judicial decisions and implementing them is essential for strengthening democracy and state institutions, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday. In a statement,...

One we cannot afford No, it isn’t rock bottom just about yet. The prime minister is yet to have charges of contempt formally framed against...

The army and the middleclass Historically speaking, academics have always been interested in understanding our civil-military calculus at the level of the state, but have...

If the law can’t protect us, the spy agency must Pakistan’s influential spy agency is in an uncomfortable spotlight once again, after being asked to...

Former ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani’s departure from Pakistan after the Memogate scandal seems like the proverbial last nail in the coffin...

Shaky innards He was minding the store; the prime minister was, at Davos, doing what heads of government are supposed to do during visits abroad:...

The mess that is civil-military relations The prime minister of late has developed a penchant for first making statements critical of the military establishment and...

The quality of justice should not be strained With so much to say and such little space to say it in, best to KISS –...

A judgement is a judgement It is actually not that complicated. Are the judges always right? No. Should their judgements always be followed in letter...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Firdous Ashiq Awan said on Thursday that PPP had a history of struggling for the independence of judiciary and it...

Timing is everything Accountability is as necessary for the functioning of a democratic setup as freedom of expression. It forms an integral part of the...

The one liability has become a mountain of crises The drift of things ever since the PPP-led government took over had always pointed in one...

The government’s tribulations It is three fronts that the government faces today. First, the military, whose sabre-rattling, never too subtle at the best of times,...

Situation heating up Here we Pakistanis go again! This terrible habit of cooking on high fires with mega spoonfuls of oil to produce and eat...