President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday accepted the resignations of Supreme Court judges Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Athar Minallah. The judges stepped down a day after the 27th Constitutional Amendment was signed into law, which they criticized as unconstitutional and harmful to judicial independence. Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, in a 13-page resignation letter […]
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah
Pension System
When Justice Mansoor Ali Shah declared that a pension is not a favour but a constitutional right, he exposed one of the state’s most uncomfortable truths: Pakistan guarantees dignity to its servants, but funds it on borrowed time. What began as a safety net has become a fiscal trap, a system that devours resources meant […]