The main focus of the 26th and 27th amendments — for all the wide-ranging havoc they have brought and will bring to the judiciary — leaves 98pc of cases and 98pc of the litigant public untouched.
Updated13 Nov, 202508:05pm
When Justice Munir denied the existence of the assembly’s sovereignty, he destroyed the country’s existing constitutional basis. Sovereign power in Pakistan would become a prize, to be seized by the strongest.
Updated23 Sep, 202503:30pm
If indeed the Quaid came home, he’d have found freedom in recession. We know this not from speculation, but from decades of documentary record.
Updated11 Sep, 202511:22am
After this latest verdict, the Constitutional Bench has served that Constitution on a platter to the rejected parties: they can now reshape our legal order all by themselves.
Updated06 Jul, 202511:42pm
The lesson of Modi’s entire public life has been that playing with fire benefits his politics — from the inferno of Gujarat in 2002 to Muslim massacres in Delhi in 2020.
Published10 May, 202504:28am
To be fair to Justice Isa, he showed tremendous courage in checking the powerful — if power can be taken to mean retired judges, dead generals, and Monal Restaurant.
Updated29 Oct, 202402:34pm
Tracing the first decade's events leading from one Partition — that created Pakistan — to the next — that created Bangladesh — and the role of Pakistan's first opposition party.
Updated22 Feb, 202501:00pm
The caretaker govt's decision also goes against the very spirit of why Pakistan was born — a place where a minority, once under threat of persecution, could live and be free.
Updated13 Nov, 202308:22pm
