Undoing a federation on May 12, 2020Recent developments regarding undoing the 18th Amendment of the Constitution have stirred up a debate between the government and the opposition and caused disturbance among those governed. This is no ordinary question but is something about the long due autonomy to the provinces which was taken away by use of an iron hand by the […]
E-courts — a necessity on May 2, 2020E-courts are in action throughout the world to modernise the manual legal system which is time consuming and ineffective for rising numbers of cases. It is purposed to facilitate and protect both litigants and legal practitioners, saving their time health and resources. Due to a backlog of cases and partial closure of courts due to […]
A Case for Liberating Prisoners on April 1, 2020Every person is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty beyond any shadow of doubt, however, 48,008 under trial prisoners in Pakistan are rotting behind the bars from years and at present times exposed to the COVID-19 epidemic, even though their innocence or guilt is yet to be ascertained. Many a times the prosecution fails […]
The fizzers of reference against Justice Seth on March 4, 2020The government intends to file a reference against Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth to the Supreme Judicial Council, for being ‘mentally unfit and incompetent’, said Federal Law Minister Farogh Naseem. Justice Seth who is author of the judgment of the Special Court’s decision convicting former military ruler of Pakistan, General Retired Pervez Musharraf guilty of High […]
Constitutional fraud: of the few, by the few and for the few on February 9, 2020Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council conditionally called off a 23-days-long strike throughout the province against the amendment in Civil Procedure Code on January 30, 2020, when the government, through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Civil Law Amendment Ordinance, 2020, had pigeonholed the amendments till April 15, 2020. However, it seems that the lawyers were given a wide berth by […]
Threatened Brotherhood of Provinces on January 22, 2020Recently, due to rise of prices of flour in Punjab, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar, in violation of Article 151 3(a) banned flour supply to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which was left with 5 days’ supply of it as per the vendors; which was considered an insult by those lightening peoples’ houses and gas stoves throughout Pakistan. Nationalist […]
A Government Prone to Ambiguities on January 16, 2020Pakistan Army (Amendment) Act, 2020 regarding re-appointment/ extension of Chief of Army Staff was received with open arms and passed without hurdles by members of both lower and upper house of the parliament and become an act by getting Presidential assent. All this happened after Supreme Court of Pakistan in a case challenging extension of […]
Damned Before Trial on January 14, 2020Enactment of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Control of Narcotics substances, 2019 overriding Federal law of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, came as a thunderbolt on Narcotics cartels operating throughout the province being more deterrent in nature due to its inclusion of unnerving penalties like death and up to life imprisonment for a smaller quantum of substance as compared […]
A Dismal Tale of Enactments on January 14, 20202019 was a busy year for lawmakers in Pakistan, having amended and legislated Acts of parliament and temporary laws in shape of Ordinances issued by the President under article 89 and Governors under article 128 of the Constitution of 1973. We are believed to have covered in the legal framework, more or less everything humans […]
Death in Absentia on December 20, 2019The death sentence awarded to General Rtr. Pervez Musharaf, former military dictator and President of Pakistan was a jolt to the world, and a hot topic for discussion between legal pundits, questioning the legality of the decision in light of Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, as amended in 2010 through 18th amendment, which […]