Tag: Judiciary
Unholy Godmen: Asaram Babu rape conviction highlights abuse of religious sentiments
News Analysis | An Indian court has found Asaram Bapu, a spiritual leader who has founded hundreds of ashrams in India, guilty of raping a...
Khursheed Shah warns of ‘non-existent’ institutional confrontation
News Analysis | Syed Khursheed Shah, opposition leader in the National Assembly, has, once again, spoken against the ‘institutional confrontation’ warning the government of its...
Rao Anwar to face the judiciary for fake encounters but what...
News Analysis | The Sindh police have finally submitted a charge-sheet against Rao Anwar, former SSP for his involvement in the fake encounter that led...
Is internal instability leading Pakistan towards chaos?
Brig. Asif Haroon Raja (R)| India has all along been trying to break up Pakistan, but it became a collective target of Indo-US-Israeli nexus after...
PML-N legislators arrested over abusive anti-judiciary protests
News Analysis | Police have arrested Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member National Assembly (MNA) Waseem Akhtar Sheikh and Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Naeem Safdar over...
LHC’s ban on anti-judiciary speeches is real despite misinterpretation
News Analysis | Soon after the Supreme Court of Pakistan winded up a Suo Moto notice regarding the Lahore High Court’s verdict over the ban...
Why is PML-N campaigning against the Judiciary?
News Analysis | The Lahore High Court (LHC) has banned the airing of alleged "anti-judiciary speeches" made by the ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter...
Chief Justice of Pakistan on a mission to reform the justice...
News Analysis | Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Saqib Nisar said that formulating the laws in not judiciary’s prerogative, rather, it is the duty of legislators...
Nawaz Sharif fears no ‘free and fair’ Elections to be held,...
News Analysis | Ousted Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif once again criticized the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) for not doing what he was saying....
‘I do not agree with Nawaz Sharif’s narrative at all’: Chaudhary...
News Analysis | The chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shahbaz Sharif met Chaudhary Nisar to address the latter’s reservations regarding the party’s narrative. No...
Why is Nawaz trying to exploit Justice Isa’s remarks?
News Analysis | Ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has termed the Justice Isa’s remarks on the Panama case, ‘not an ordinary development’. Talking to the media...
Bomb blast in Lahore: who benefits from it?
News Analysis | In a bomb blast in Lahore at least 7 people have been killed and more than a dozen got injured on Wednesday...
Hindu women charged with ‘Love-Jihad’ for converting to Islam
News Analysis | Hadiya, whose marriage to a Muslim youth had triggered a nationwide controversy, has demanded compensation from the state government for the loss...
Thunderous farewell speech by Aitzaz Ahsan
News Analysis | Outgoing senator Aitzaz Ahsan heavily criticized the PML-N in a speech in the Parliament for its behavior following the verdict given by...
Nawaz challenges judiciary to remove his signature from nuclear program
News Analysis | Disqualified Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif claimed that next general election will be a referendum against his ousting. Addressing a large gathering...
Win in Senate elections may pave way for PML-N to legislate...
News Desk | Senate Elections are underway. The upper house of the parliament is to be reelected today. Given the political environment of the country,...
Maryam and Hamza unlikely to takeover PML-N leadership in Punjab
News Analysis | The seat of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab President has become vacant, as the former Punjab president, Shehbaz Sharif, has ascended...
Is Democracy merely rule of the majority?
Farah Adeed | Democracy is under the threat not only in Pakistan but across the globe. Authoritarian tendencies of political leaders in both established and transitional...
PML-N and PPP united against the judiciary?
News Analysis | Senators showed great concern over the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan to overturn an amendment made by the parliament...
PPP’s guarded approach to Nawaz’s confrontation with judiciary
News Analysis | Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari accused ousted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of creating deliberate confrontation between judiciary and...
End of the road for Nawaz?
News Analysis | Former premier and now former chief of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was disqualified once again by the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan...
What does the future hold for Nawaz?
News Analysis | The Supreme Court (SC) decision to bar ousted ex-Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif to lead the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) is...
Does the constitution allow the judiciary to review amendments?
News Analysis | The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar said that the parliament is supreme but the Constitution is above it. The...
PM Abbasi attacks judiciary and seeks parliament supremacy
News Analysis | Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has expressed dismay at senior judicial figures and lamented them for labeling the elected representatives as...
Lodhran elections result was revenge by the public: Nawaz Sharif
News Analysis | The deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif declared that the people of Lodhran took revenge against those who tried to take revenge against...
Are Nawaz’s anti-judiciary antics justifiable?
Raja Waqas Shabbir | The political landscape of this unpredictable country continues to face unbelievable chaos. The mainstream political parties are hitting below the belt...
The Court of Verdict Should be the Supreme Court not the...
Junaid Ali Malik | Throughout the history of Pakistan, there have been certain verdicts taken by the Supreme Court that have managed to shatter the...
Using nepotism in the pursuit of ‘Power’
Shiffa Yousafzai | Suo motu action taken by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar and his summon spree in the last few...
The judiciary is not part of any ‘planning’ or for derailing...
News Analysis | The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar addressed a seminar on the National Judicial Policymaking Committee (NJPC) in Islamabad on...
Supreme Court turns blind eye to Nawaz’s anti-Judiciary rants
News Analysis | Disqualified ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif continues with his much-criticized anti-judiciary tirade, despite the Supreme Court’s decision to convict PML-N’s Senator Nehal Hashmi for...
Nawaz delivers speech about the future of democracy in Pakistan
News Analysis | Nawaz Sharif on Friday gave a speech about the future of democracy in Pakistan while speaking in a seminar in Karachi. Sharif...
Islamabad High Court undertakes contempt of court petition against Nawaz, Maryam
News Analysis | The Islamabad High Court (IHC) accepted a contempt of court petition against former premier Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz on...
Is Nawaz Sharif threatening to become the next Mujibur Rahman?
News Analysis | Former premier Nawaz Sharif has continued his verbal assault against the judiciary and the military. Yesterday, while talking to a group of...
Little Zainabs will continue to be raped, murdered & dumped on...
Dr. Moeed Pirzada | As I write these lines, large crowds in Kasur, a historic city near Lahore, in the Pakistani province of Punjab are...
Pakistan’s ambitions for 2018
Ikram Sehgal | Events of national significance tend to linger on in our combined memories for some time, even then 2018 ushered in hopes of...
Astrologers claim Shehbaz, not Imran will be Prime Minister in 2018
News Analysis | Scores of astrologers and palmists have predicted that Shehbaz Sharif holds bright chances of becoming the Prime Minister in the next general...
