Stories by Omer Imran Malik

Privacy leadership

If Pakistan wishes to attract the best tech companies to invest here, it will have to show the world that it can protect the per

Published 29 Dec, 2022 07:19am

Tapping phones

We have an unchecked surveillance regime.

Published 09 Sep, 2022 06:38am

Right to privacy

Information privacy has arguably become the hottest topic.

Published 04 Jul, 2022 08:14am

Leaky databases

We cannot live in fear of digital highway robbers...

Published 15 May, 2022 06:13am

Judicial powers

Suo motu is a power that needs to be regulated.

Published 18 Jun, 2020 07:13am

Vagueness doctrine

A law criminalising certain speech or action cannot be imprecise.

Published 23 Mar, 2020 07:09am

Above the law?

The legal community must ask itself: ‘Who watches the watchmen?’

Published 06 Jan, 2020 07:37am

CSB’s prerogative

The promise of serious reforms has been sidelined.

Published 19 Dec, 2019 07:23am

AACPO appeal

Under Article 8, no law is valid if it violates fundamental rights.

Published 06 Nov, 2019 07:25am

Fundamental rights

Constitutional guarantees have been done away with by the AACPO.

Published 17 Oct, 2019 07:18am

Avenging Salahuddin

His taunt became a haunting critique of our justice system.

Published 24 Sep, 2019 07:20am

Righting wrongs

Over one third of death row appeals end in complete acquittal.

Published 01 Sep, 2019 07:22am

Stifling dissent

Only parliament can legislate the limits of free speech.

Published 14 Jul, 2019 06:55am

Rethinking Peca

Is the cyberlaw even constitutionally valid?

Published 30 Jun, 2019 06:57am

Online freedoms

If speech needs be regulated, it should be by judicial determination.

Published 03 Apr, 2019 07:08am

Too little, too late

The act of enforced disappearance has always been a crime in Pakistan.

Published 04 Feb, 2019 06:29am