Tag: Judiciary

Reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision in the NRO case, the PML-N on Tuesday said the government had announced an open war against the...

Asking the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) not to link the Swiss cases with the grave of Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz...

Not ideal given the turmoil The defiant note struck at the PPP’s core committee meeting is likely to jack up confrontation between the executive and...

Many a slip between the lip and the cup The PPP core committee jointly chaired by the president and the prime minister has ostensibly struck...

It must have badly hurt the lawyers’ community when Asma Jahangir, the counsel for Hussain Haqqani, expressed no trust in the Supreme Court as...

Lahore High Court Chief Justice Azmat Saeed said on Friday that corruption in the district judiciary could be eradicated through structural changes in the...

As always, a debate is going on these days as to how to maintain a balanced working relationship between the three branches of government...

The government and the military stand apart When the president left the country amid wild speculation regarding the state of his physical and mental health,...

Within defined limits The people of Pakistan have been denied some of the fundamental rights in the past on account of collusion between the military...

It’s not just the politicians… India is the only country in South Asia where democracy has survived in its classical form. It got disfigured in...

The judiciary, as an institution, can never be independent until and unless individual judges remain impartial, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJ) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry...

Is it, really? If the murder of a sitting governor of the country’s largest province, that too in the federal capital, was a manifestation of...

The government’s moves to ‘sabotage’ the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam investigation by one tactic or another are likely to invite a fresh...

Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Monday that the successive constitutional deviations served no purpose except to retard the advancement...

Senior PPP leader Senator Mir Lashkari Raisani on Friday urged the superior judiciary to investigate the “revelations” made by former Sindh home minister Zulfiqar...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Tuesday that the judiciary could intervene if the government failed to perform its duties to...

As the controversy over the local government and commissioner systems has developed into a political controversy, Daniyal Aziz, the former chairman of the National...