Tag: Supreme Court

Things could get bad for the PPP President Zardari’s speech at the death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto was marked by a grim resolve. While the...

There is more to it than meets the eye Interesting developments that raise uneasy questions took place before the memo case was filed in the...

Another show of strength It is the season of political rallies, so an even larger than usual turnout at the death anniversary of slain two-time...

With escape routes blocked, how comes the end? The prime minister’s outbursts of December 22 have dashed any prospects that may still have lingered with...

A three-member Supreme Court bench on Tuesday sought the federation and Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) replies within 15 days in a plea seeking...

The honourable Supreme Court has ordered to purchase diesel from petrol pumps for railway engines to run the trains if Pakistan Railways is unable...

A set of challenges The best gig in town, being a news pundit. A turn of phrase here, an amusing anecdote there and off you...

Sabir Masih was a 17-year-old young man when I met him in 2005 in Lahore. The day was August 14, when bonded labourers working...

Time to back down While the common man in Pakistan is harassed by ever increasing economic woes, lawlessness and uncertainty about the country’s security after...

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,...

The Memogate seems to have become a proverbial ‘bone stuck in the throat’ of the government. If it wants to play it down, the...

A system corrupted beyond cure? A vile premonition has followed the incumbent government each day of its four years in the halls of power. And...

When the president is away, the rumourmongers will play So there we go again! Pakistan seems to be a particularly blessed country where there is...

The lawyers’ community is divided over the Supreme Court’s intervention in the ‘memogate’ issue, as some of them believe that the court has rightly...

Perturbed by the Supreme Court (SC) orders pertaining to the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and the memo controversy, President Asif Ali Zardari has decided...

Almost as important as justice itself Soon after delivering its judgment in the NRO case, the Supreme Court has taken up the case of the...