Usama Khawar

The recent Supreme Court decision to annul amendments to Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) laws has rekindled a fiery debate surrounding the deployment of accountability laws as potent political tools. While accountability remains a cornerstone of any democracy, concerns about its partiality and fairness have taken centre stage. NAB: A Political Arsenal Justice Maqbool Baqar’s […]

The budget-making process in Pakistan is complex, opaque and often undemocratic; dominated by the executive, federal government and bureaucracy. However, recent events have highlighted the need to strengthen Parliament and National Assembly’s role in the budget-making process and reduce supplementary grants. In the current political and constitutional context of Pakistan, there is a debate over […]

The tremendous powers of the Chief Justice of Pakistan to assign cases and form benches have come into the spotlight once again. The bar, civil society, and political parties had been demanding the regulation of the vast discretionary powers of the Chief Justice for long, but now the brother judges have also jumped into the […]