Trends - JUDICIAL REFORMS

Why there is no lawyers’ movement in Pakistan today

In 2007, live television turned a sacked chief justice into a national uprising that ended Gen Musharraf’s rule. A lawyer who marched then, and resigned from the Supreme Court in protest last year, explains why that isn’t happening now.

Updated 14 Jul, 2026 10:32pm

Pakistan has a supreme court. Then it built a supremacist one.

The court whose interpretation of law binds everyone, including the Supreme Court itself, is the Federal Constitutional Court.

Published 14 May, 2026 12:05pm

The year the judiciary lost everything

The 2025 amendments cross into full Orwell territory: undefined offences of ‘fake’ or ‘false’ information, and a ban on ‘aspersions’ against the state, are now the new normal.

Updated 02 Jan, 2026 11:58am

The age of surveillance: George Orwell’s 1984, now streaming in Pakistan

As democratic institutions around the world grapple with declining public trust and as constitutional frameworks struggle to keep pace with technological advancement, the Pakistani example serves as a cautionary tale.

Updated 27 Nov, 2025 03:23pm

Supreme Judicial Council dismisses 19 complaints against judges for hearing

Council approves proposed draft of SJC Secretariat Service Rules, 2025.

Updated 12 Jul, 2025 04:28pm

Judicial top brass forms body to devise ‘institutional response’ to enforced disappearances

Tasks high courts to set up structured mechanisms for reporting, dealing with external influences on judiciary by executive functionaries.

Published 11 Jul, 2025 10:16pm

Work with the judiciary for rapid dispensation of backlog of cases

The party said it would do so by "providing necessary resources and tracking systems".

Updated 18 Apr, 2022 08:06pm