Tag: Supreme Court

All is not well Happy families are all alike, said Leo Tolstoy; all unhappy families, however, are unhappy in their own way. In Pakistan, the...

Another episode Not much of a surprise, the development that took place in the Supreme Court yesterday. The honourable judges had already opined that the...

The PPP will decide the future course of action after the Supreme Court’s (SC) verdict on February 13, Federal Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim...

No time yet for a hundred indecisions While the ruling coalition fights for its survival, urgent governance issues have taken a backseat. The present government...

Aftermath of the court’s decision The eight member Supreme Court bench has rejected the appeal by the prime minister against the decision of a smaller...

A reality one moment, gone the next The memo issue has been debated extensively and exhaustively. The reason it should be debated further is because,...

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...

The US on Saturday said the contempt case against Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was Pakistan’s internal matter and hoped that all issues would...

Out of sight, out of hand? What was once spoken only in whispers or expressed in innuendos is now being discussed openly in the courts...

Civilian oversight needed The ubiquitous Pakistani intelligence apparatus, particularly the Inter-Services Intelligence agency, is under fire, both from within the country and from our erstwhile...

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...

Contempt of court Yousaf Raza Gilani is the fourth PM of Pakistan to be in the dock facing contempt charges. It is an irony that...

India's Supreme Court on Thursday scrapped 122 telecom licences awarded in a 2008 sale that has become a major corruption scandal rocking the government. "Licences...

Complying with Supreme Court (SC) orders, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials late on Tuesday night released the arrested owners of three pharmaceutical companies in...

The Supreme Court (SC) sought on Tuesday a detailed report from the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the 120 deaths caused by spurious drugs...

Peace is justice. Justice is peace. I talked of seven pillars or cornerstones of justice last Sunday but left out three of the most important...

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:...