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.
Sets aside PST decision against three HUD, PHED officials; warns against "callous and reckless approach" that violates procedure and denies fair trial rights.
Jinnah's preference for a federal court with narrow, constitution-specific jurisdiction was born out of political necessity, not constitutional philosophy.
Eighteen years after the lawyers’ movement, when three friends and colleagues, bound by a shared belief in the Constitution, were tested once more, only two remained true to that promise.
The fight against the 26th and 27th Amendments is a fight for every Pakistani’s right to justice. It is not a fight to protect the judiciary for its own sake.
The encroachers are the same as they were in 2007; more brazen now because their handmaidens all recognise that the sell-out date on their popularity has long passed.
