The quagmire of offshore tax havens on November 9, 2017Setting up an offshore company — in a country with less stringent tax rules than your home country — is not illegal. Setting up a Shell-Company; to stash away ill-gotten money, is illegal, there is a major difference. A Shell-Company is sometimes used as a facade, and is incorporated by the wealthy for personal gain. […]
Punishment must fit the crime on November 3, 2017Pakistan’s courts are failing to deliver justice expeditiously. The country’s prisons are full of those who have committed petty crimes and who spend years there awaiting trial. There is no need for such cases to clog up the wheels of the criminal justice system. Moreover, can we really consider it morally justified to lock up […]
The abominable state of the elderly on October 21, 2017It is unfortunate that many in our society consider the elderly a burden. As a result a large number are left to languish on the streets. The lucky few who make it to the dismal elderly residences available live the remainder of their lives in distress, longing to meet their once loved ones. The people […]
What gives an individual legal authority? on October 9, 2017Why is a certain individual given more value and respect than other members of a tribe, when that individual only has age, a comparatively better home or a once in a lifetime event to his name? Why are such individuals acceded to positions of power? To be able to make life and death decisions? And […]
What gives an individual legal authority? on October 9, 2017Why is a certain individual given more value and respect than other members of a tribe, when that individual only has age, a comparatively better home or a once in a lifetime event to his name? Why are such individuals acceded to positions of power? To be able to make life and death decisions? And […]
Plight of the destitute on September 28, 2017Parents send their children to school, contemplating that eventually they will be able to fend for themselves once they graduate. Parents make sacrifices for their children dreaming of a brighter future for their children, which they couldn’t possibly have. Yet they strive for and work hard by spending huge amounts of money on private education […]
Traffic woes and revival of cricket’ on September 15, 2017For the past couple of days, residents of Lahore have become prisoners in their own city. Their movement has been restricted, and they are coerced into abiding the illegal confinement imposed on them. All this in the name of the ‘revival of cricket’ in Pakistan. This violates an individual’s right to be free from restraint […]
Does a victim provoke the rapist? on September 7, 2017How can someone have the audacity to force themselves on someone? Whether it is non-consensual physical touching, unwarranted eye contact, sexual innuendos or extreme forms which include rape and child molestation. All the mentioned guises lead to incivility in our society, and need to be addressed for justice to prevail and injustice to be denied. […]