Pakistan still awaits an anti-torture legislation on April 12, 2021Pakistan signed UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) on 17thApril 2008. On 23rd June 2010 the same convention was ratified by the Country to uphold its assurance to end torture and inhuman punishments in line with the international human rights standards. However, till date, more than a […]
The need to kill an either/or narrative on February 15, 2021‘Young lawyers must not engage in bar politics’, ‘Professional lawyers have nothing to do with political culture in the legal profession’, ‘If you want to be a good lawyer, stay away from election candidates’. These are some of the popular statements that keep floating within the legal community as well as in the society at […]
Criminal behaviour needs more attention than the crime on December 31, 2020Pakistan has deep-rooted systematic issues with respect to implementation of laws. The issues are even crucial in the criminal administration of justice as this is the area of law where justice and human rights are compromised the most. Crime is a complex phenomenon that exists in multiple layers. Mitigating crime does not simply require passing […]
Difference of Opinion or Indifference of Opinion? on November 17, 2020Difference of opinion in court judgments is considered to be a key source of evolution of law. The possibility of different juries interpreting the same law as per their own judicious mind gives several shades to the same piece of legislation. In addition to that, it paves various grounds of continuous debate for legal practitioners […]
Does the law protect transgender people? on May 4, 2020After a prolonged struggle of the transgender community and the transgender rights activists in Pakistan, the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act was passed in 2018. Besides specifically defining a transgender person, the Act pronounces some of the important rights for transgender community such as the right to choose gender and the right to inherit […]
Discussing Human Rights through films: #The Why Film Festival 2020 on January 15, 2020Human rights violations continue to be the core issue in sustainable development at global, national and local level. Gender discrimination, inaccessible education system, forced and early marriages and gross economic marginalization of women are some of the fundamental human rights violations that pose serious threat to inclusion, growth and equal access to opportunities. Gender Equality […]
Reko Diq Case: What next for Pakistan? on July 16, 2019The Reko Diq fix is widely being discussed these days on account of two prime, amongst other, reasons: first, the financial losses that it is deemed to cause to Pakistan; second, the bad repute that it has earned to Pakistan across the international fraternity. The International Tribunal of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes […]
Law of sexual harassment in Pakistan: Lahore High Court’s historic judgment on June 1, 2019Despite the fact that Pakistan legislated on sexual harassment of women at workplaces in 2010, and subsequently Punjab adopted this enactment in 2012, Balochistan in 2016, KPK in 2017 and Sindh in 2018, the jurisprudence of sexual harassment is still developing in Pakistan. It has been almost a decade that the law criminalizes sexual harassment […]
Staying strong by staying in care on April 17, 2019Like many other lessons that Pakistan needs to learn from developed nations of the world, one is the awareness and skills to deal with inevitable and lifetime health conditions. Healthcare facilities in Pakistan are quite limited considering the mounting population, poverty rate and lack of education on basic healthcare particularly in rural areas of Pakistan. […]
Casual sexism: let it be what it is on October 12, 2018Language is one of the strongest tools at the disposal of human. Our words, our discourse, our expressions matter the most when it comes to communicating and propagating ideas. But wait! What are we actually propagating in public? This is the real question, since I have read and identified sexist remarks against women published in […]