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For justice & democracy [English]

September 11th by I A Rehman.
THE new establishment’s decision not to restore some of the sidelined judges has brought smiles to some faces and disappointment to many more. Both reactions are bad for democracy’s fresh experiment. ...

Utterly inhuman [English]

September 4th by I A Rehman.
AS if the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s disappearance more than five years ago was not horrifying enough the discovery of her 12-year-old son in a Kabul prison has ...

Deadened by deadlines [English]

August 24th by Ghazi Salahuddin.
This question has constantly been posed during the past few months: why is Asif Ali Zardari so hesitant to restore the deposed judges, particularly Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry? Yes, the ...

Democracy is the best form of accountability [English]

August 24th by Ayesha Tammay Haq.
All around the mulberry bush The monkey chased the weasel; That's the way the money goes Pop! goes the weasel. This is part of a rhyme from my childhood that fits the current political ...

Looking back and stepping forward [English]

August 14th by Ayesha Tammay Haq.
Sixty-one years ago a lawyer, a Barrister from London, led the Muslims of the Indian sub-continent to a country they could call their own. Mr Jinnah was a very sick ...

Where have all the lawyers gone? Long time passing

July 19th by Ayesha Tammay Haq.
As we move along in this state of no perceptible governance, where everything, including the weather seems to be out of control, the oft-heard refrain is 'what happened to ...