Imagine if Bill Gates was a Pakistani on July 6, 2019“Behind every fortune there is a crime”, a line from a renowned novel by Mario Puzoin 1969, is the basis on which the then Chief Justice of Pakistan(CJP) had disqualified the former premier Nawaz Sharif in the Panama case judgment. It is, therefore, safe to say that Sharif was disqualified on the pretext that since […]
A hyperactive judiciary will topple this sham democracy on July 8, 2018“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches,” said the Irishman, George Bernard Shaw. Are you aware that the current Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Saqib Nisar was the first-ever lawyer in the history of Pakistan who was appointed as the federal law secretary in 1997 by the then qualified, though today’s disqualified, prime […]
The Manuscript on June 14, 2018The dictionary defines the term ‘manuscript’ as ‘an author’s handwritten or typed text that has not yet been published’. In fact, I am writing one right now, sitting here on the balcony after a long and weary day. Any author, whether that of a book, novel or column, goes through this phase, when they go […]
Pakistanis and their pursuit of security on June 9, 2018While I was in Cardiff, studying law, around half a decade ago, I had the opportunity to visit home during the Christmas holidays. I accompanied my mother to a dental surgeon in Peshawar where my family resided. The doctor asked me the reason I was doing law in Britain rather than in Pakistan. Among many […]
Are you saadiq and ameen? on May 18, 2018The constitution does not define superlative terminologies of Saadiq and Ameen but the implications of these terminologies are such that if you have committed a smallest sin in your life, chances are that you would go down eventually. God does forgive a man, man does not. For instance, Mr X, a prospective candidate for the […]
Everyone wants to be the PM on April 24, 2018George Bernard Shaw once stated “My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world”. This paper is one such joke, to say the least. This is not the first time in Pakistan’s history that naming and shaming has been utilized in the name of cleansing the system, only […]