A time to act on June 27, 2012The judicial coup engineered by our Supreme Court (SC) has to be the first in the democratic world, whereby a democratically elected prime minister (PM) was removed through the machinations of an unelected entity on the charge of contempt of court. As if the ever-lurking threat of a military coup was not enough to destabilise […]
One suo motu too many on June 19, 2012The Supreme Court’s short order in the Arsalan Iftikhar case absolving the Honourable Chief Justice (CJ) without any investigation or examination of any evidence in the underlying imbroglio is premature. It is in fact contradicted by the Supreme Court’s own statement in this order: “…the Supreme Court (SC)…cannot judge the guilt or innocence of the […]
Flawed judgement on May 27, 2012Regarding the Supreme Court (SC) judgment in Prime Minister (PM) Gilani’s contempt case, following is my respectful dissent in layperson’s language that is shorn of detailed legalese, in deference to the formatting demands of a newspaper column. An initial review of the judgment reveals, apart from other questionable conclusions drawn by the learned Justices, a […]