Tag: Nro
PM was legally bound to implement NRO verdict: SC
Releasing the detailed reasons for rejecting the prime minister’s intra-court appeal against contempt charges, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the possibility of...
Collective shame
The people factor is critical
There is no dearth of events happening in the country that would put the nation to collective shame. One such...
Irresponsible statement?
The government is under very heavy pressure for the ‘good deeds’ it has done and claiming former President Pervez Musharraf responsible for Benazir Bhutto...
On judicial activism
More power to the judiciary’s elbow
I have always considered that the success of lawyers’ movement in Pakistan in 2008 was its first war of...
The villainous cover-ups
The decline is steep and remedies extinct
The word governance in Pakistan has become synonymous with everything degenerate. While the hapless people are pounded with...
Nawaz urges PM Gilani to stand by his stance
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML –N) chief Mian Nawaz Sharif said his party is credited with bringing National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) to a halt.
Talking to...
Another brick in place
Whichever way to the future, the path is strewn with pitfalls
The inevitable has happened. The prime minister has been cited for contempt by the...
Merely sound and fury
The times we are enduring
If ever a doubt lingered with regard to us having regressed beyond redemption, it should go away with the ongoing...
Of Bonapartists
India has some too
The issue of the two army chiefs, in India and Pakistan, still dominate the discussions. Chief of Army Staff V K...
President enjoys complete immunity in criminal cases: Aitzaz
Former President of Supreme Court Bar Association and PPP leader Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has said that the president enjoys complete immunity in criminal...
No one can get immunity sitting at home: Ramday
Former Supreme Court Jstice (r) Khalilur Rehman Ramday on Saturday said no one could get immunity while staying at home and one had to...
Balance and equity
The quality of justice should not be strained
With so much to say and such little space to say it in, best to KISS –...
PM in the courthouse
Keeping calm and carrying on?
PM Gilani’s appearance in the Supreme Court brought to light a number of important trends. First and foremost, the appearance...
Swiss letter, and spirit
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...
President has immunity, why write the letter?
Appearing in the Supreme Court in response to a show-cause notice issued to him to explain why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against...
All eyes on SC as PM goes to court
All eyes are set on the Supreme Court where Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani will appear in person today (Thursday) in a contempt of...
