The impeachment of Siddiqui on October 24, 2018Themis was the Greek God of fairness, law and custom. Carrying a sword in one hand and the ‘Scales of Justice’ in the other, for her there was no middle way. The sword would help her sever fiction from fact, and the scales would allow her to evaluate the strength of arguments. Themis would never […]
The switch in time on August 30, 2018There’s an old English saying, a stitch in time saves nine. Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to power in the United States in 1933, before the end of the great depression. He promised a ‘new deal’, to reform and recover the severely strained American economy. In a political battle of wills, the Supreme Court passed legislation […]
GB: governance, dams and the SC on August 12, 2018The Supreme Court started its own dam fund when the apex court of the country was hearing a suo motu notice of the State Bank of Pakistan, whereby a scheme to allow several companies to write off loans worth Rs54 billion was being discussed. The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) remarked that two dams could […]
Need to revisit electoral legislation to ensure transparent elections in Pakistan on August 5, 2018After the July 25 elections, the major political parties of Pakistan rejected the results of elections and alleged that the elections were rigged across the country. Only Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf (PTI) termed elections free and fair. Moreover, this is not the first time though, in established democracies such as the United States, and even developing democracies […]
The Yadav jurisprudence on July 27, 2018International law has no uniform coercive force, it only has amoral force. Some critics have called international law nothing more than positive morality due to its lack of law enforcing institutions, the powerful can go scot-free while the weak are grilled. Even those who insist that international law is indeed true law, agree with critics […]
Killing the World Trade Organisation on June 22, 2018The Made in China 2025 (MC2025) initiative is aimed at making China self-sufficient in a wide array of products, military infrastructure and technology. Beating the United States at technology would mean becoming the most imperious economy in the world, and trade regulations wouldn’t really be a priority for Xi Jinping. If flouting those regulations gets […]
CPEC and dispute resolution on June 5, 2018Much has been written about CPEC. However not enough has been said from a legal point of view. There is a strong need to develop mechanisms to solve potential disputes among the governments of the two countries, their regulators and their corporations, both private and public. As complex as it gets, there may be a […]