Naeem Tahir

A First Information Report (FIR) is a written document prepared by police organisations in Pakistan when they receive information about the commission of a cognizable offence. An FIR is an important document because it sets the process of criminal justice in motion An FIR was registered in Balochistan against a major TV news network. Here […]

The Prime Minister (PM) has spoken. It was after a long wait that the third-time new PM decided to speak to the nation. What did he say? The general reaction is that he said very little, or nothing. Or at least he did not say what this nation wanted to hear. The nation wanted to […]

Nobody should utter words that hold the courts in contempt. Agreed. But what should we do about ‘perceptions’? Perceptions are important. In matters of justice it is said that ‘justice should not only be done, it should also appear to be done’. In other words the importance of justice ‘appearing’ to be done is equally […]

They had worked hard away from home, they had saved money to share with the family, they had fasted during the holy month of Ramzan and sought the blessings of the Almighty. They boarded the bus, but did not reach home. They were brutally murdered by target killers, who call themselves the Balochistan Liberation Army […]

Look at these clichés: “We strongly condemn…x atrocity…”. “ We have taken serious note….of Y disaster…” “We sympathise…with z sufferings…” “We cannot allow…..xyz…” No such utterance means anything. The suffering of the public continues and leaders stay busy in ‘completing’ their elected terms rather than admitting failure and gracefully tendering resignations. To admit failure is […]

Ladies, please go home. And don’t come out because that causes disturbance! It is so particularly in the month of Ramzan. My advice is solid and worth following. The reasons will unfold shortly. When I was a student of masters in psychology at the Government College, Lahore, we were presented typical cases of abnormal psychology […]

Ajmal Kasab was hanged on November 21, 2012 at 7:30 am and buried in Yerwada Jail. Yerwada Central Jail is a noted high-security jail in Yerwada, Pune, in Maharashtra, India. On June 2, 2009, Kasab told the judge he also understood the Marathi language. Kasab’s plea for clemency was rejected by President Pranab Mukherjee on […]

This is not about electoral polls. It is actually about electric poles. Some readers might have seen the photographs of a woman who climbed an electric pole near the office/residence of the Chief Minister/Prime Minister in Model Town, Lahore. The police worked hard to bring her down and save the Khadim-e-Aala (as the chief minister […]

A good thing has happened! Mr Najam Sethi has emerged as the most suitable ‘interim’ something for everything! He can be an interim chief minister and bring luck to Mr Nawaz Sharif. He can be the interim chairman of cricket board and do something good to it. Mr Sethi clearly said that he had been […]

Mr Nawaz Sharif announced in the National Assembly on June 24, 2013 that his government would support the trial of General (Retd) Syed Pervez Musharraf for treason. Sharif has very few options in the current scenario and it seems he desperately needs a diversion from the problems his government is facing right at the start. […]