Articles with tag: judiciary
Can the Judiciary Save the Coalition?
Zafar Mohiuddin May 6, 2008 interacts: 102Handing the Supreme Court back to a judge and his team that stood up to the COAS and the President amounts to adding a new player in the already confusing power politics in Pakistan.
Long Road Ahead
Khalid Bhatti Feb 19, 2008PML(Q) showed a very dismal performance with managing just 38 seats against the boastful claims of more than 110 seats in national assembly before the elections.
Pressures Mount on Pervez Musharraf
Beena Sarwar Nov 15, 2007 interacts: 11"The judges by not taking oath, the lawyers and civil society by resisting have shown the way. The media is standing by them. This is one battle the General is sure to lose"
Whither Emergency
Rezwan Bajwa Nov 12, 2007 interacts: 19General Musharraf’s self perception of being indispensable to Pakistan is now compounded further as the US affirms him as the most valuable partner in the ‘war on terror’.
No Dice Without Reinstatement of Judiciary
Ahmer Muzammil Nov 12, 2007 interacts: 12The fight is not between democracy and martial-law or Q league or X league, it’s always between the have’s and have not’s.
Johnny On The Street
Irfan Pakistani Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 3Should the lawyers be able to recapture the imagination of the nation and catalyze meaningful national resistance, the calculus shall change.
Emergency:What Lies Ahead For Pakistan?
ijaz gul Nov 3, 2007 interacts: 9The politic body, already decimated, raped and largely turned into a mob of opportunist has yet again been put on the dissecting table for surgical procedure by butchers.
Pakistan’s Political Future Still Hanging on a Flimsy Thread
Mehroz Sadruddin Oct 6, 2007 interacts: 7When the petitions were indeed non-maintainable, then why did the Supreme Court not throw them out straight away?
These Lawyers Seem Somewhat Above the Law
Moeed Pirzada Sep 10, 2007 interacts: 16It is not about Naeem Bokhari; or anyone else we don’t like; it is about law, courts and the social order.
The Importance of a Dictator’s Failure
Rozaiba May 28, 2007 interacts: 29By actively and methodically side-lining the political parties that had a presence outside of just one province, national building was turned into national fragmentation.
Men in Khaki
Karamatullah K Ghori Mar 16, 2007 interacts: 182Instead of fixing the PIA bigwigs—mostly cronies of his and Shaukat Aziz—who have brought so much ignominy and shame on Pakistan, the commando general opts to pick up a fight with the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, and embarks o
Justice, Judiciary and Journalist
Sadia Rizwan Mar 15, 2007 interacts: 66Removal of ‘just another’ Chief Justice has united the country. The voice of lawyers and journalists is that of the entire country.
