Taimoor Ashraf

Pakistan may be no heaven on earth but we are undoubtedly much better off today than our elders who had to live through the nightmare of communal rioting that had ensued months before India’s independence. Yet we are no closer to reaching a consensus on the issue whether Pakistan was meant to be a secular […]

Self-proclaimed liberals in our country are also the self-appointed guardians of Jinnah’s liberal political philosophy. Imran Khan does not fit in their grand scheme of things, therefore he is fair game. He cannot do anything right. As long as he was a cricketer and a philanthropist, he was a saint, but ever since his mammoth […]

In the wake of what happened at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI’s) public rally in Kasur, is it not time to pause and rethink the fallout of a ‘tsunami’ and ‘revolution’ on our society? Do we, as a society, even understand the very basics of a revolution? It would help to start with the most elementary: what […]

Even today, in constitutional monarchies like Britain, all the laws are posited in the name of the Queen, the head of state of the UK and Northern Ireland. Although she is legally obliged to work in tandem with her cabinet and does not enjoy unbridled powers over her kingdom, she nevertheless enjoys full immunity from […]

The honourable Supreme Court’s (SC’s) verdict on the NRO case in December 2009 and its rejection of the government’s review petition, thereby upholding its original decision, has restarted a debate about whether the president of Pakistan enjoys immunity in cases involving foreign and Pakistani courts’ jurisdiction. The debate has been often confusing as leading legal […]