Stories by Badar Iqbal Chaudhary
Badar Iqbal is a lawyer. He holds a law degree from BPP University, UK and an engineering degree in Electronic and Communications from Cardiff University. He writes intermittently for various national and international publications.
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Is the JIT really expected to achieve in two months what the Supreme Court could not in over five months?
Updated 25 Apr, 2017 01:02pm
Abundance of demagogues makes the exercise of reaching at peaceful ends that much more difficult.
Published 31 Oct, 2016 02:39pm
Our legal system is based on the principles of retribution. It is time to shift the balance in favour of reformation.
Updated 09 Jul, 2015 07:13pm
As permeated as the rot is within our police departments, the lawyers are known for putting up a compelling battle.
Published 28 May, 2015 05:46pm
Cricket is not without its share of shady politics, and our politics is not aloof from cricket terminologies.
Updated 19 Mar, 2015 03:30pm
9pm was the boundary for Mukesh. For others, it could be her outfit, her attitude; something she said or her silence.
Updated 05 Mar, 2015 02:38pm
Here is an upshot of the live streaming and scorecard apps out there, and how they can be accessed.
Updated 28 Feb, 2015 03:39pm
Let there be peace at least once in this city of the living dead.
Published 28 Jan, 2015 07:06pm
One of the two nations would would have to sacrifice; one of the two would have to take a leap of faith.
Updated 05 Jan, 2015 06:10pm
As the questions of 2014 go by unanswered, I have one question this year: how much further into the abyss will we go?
Updated 01 Jan, 2015 07:29pm
My grouse is not with the military courts per se, but with the way they may function in Pakistan, specifically.
Published 26 Dec, 2014 04:46pm
Day after day, they send signals of how incompetent they can be. But the danger alarms are conveniently shrugged off.
Updated 05 Dec, 2014 10:15pm
Imran Khan may not be a social reformer, but he's certainly a social arouser.
Updated 31 Oct, 2014 05:56pm
Convenience demands that we do not identify sectarian bloodshed. We shut our eyes. Why make enemies of barbarians?
Updated 24 Oct, 2014 05:12pm
Precisely for showing us a more unadulterated picture, journalists are dubbed 'corrupt', 'myopic' and even 'traitors'.
Published 21 Oct, 2014 07:25pm
How do we ever achieve peace in the region then, especially when no stakeholders want it? Where do we start?
Updated 15 Oct, 2014 07:59pm
More important is the need for the students' parents to show equal reverence for this profession.
Updated 13 Oct, 2014 03:48pm
How absurd to think we'd inherited true democracy, the 'saviours' of which are going hoarse inside assemblies.
Updated 11 Oct, 2014 10:47am
In the world of 'Incredible India' and 'Malaysia...truly Asia', can Pakistan have 'I didn't do it' as a tagline?
Updated 06 Nov, 2014 12:32pm
A large scale and collective movement is needed against sectarianism, involving all branches and figures of the state.
Updated 21 Sep, 2014 05:33pm
