The time has come when the Pakistanis have to call a spade a spade. It’s time we decide who is supreme: parliament or some lawyers? Well, the lawyers movement has achieved it’s purposes by getting enabling the political parties and getting the dictator out, though there are also many other very weighty factors like the [...]
Since 9th March 2007 the concept of Independent Judiciary has become very popular. Some people say our country cannot prosper without an independent judiciary some say it is not needed, there are other things that we need more. An independent judiciary is always needed to strengthen a country. Without justice people feel insecure and are [...]
There’s a palpable vibe in many progressive circles that the lawywers movement is on the brink of an epic fail. Even many journalist including Mujeeb ur Rehman Shami are saying that this isn’t the time for Dharnas and the long marches, because it would only mean terror and chaos and only the casuality would be [...]
When Pakistan’s yet another dictator Pervez Musharraf executed his coup against the judiciary on Nov 3, 2007, vandalised the Constitution and conquered the courts once again, it was warned by the likes of Fazlur Rehman and some of the other status-quo mongers that in order to save the system, aggression over judiciary should be considered [...]
In the judgment (dated 16th January 2009) of Farah Hameed Dodar case, Justice Sardar Aslam of the Islamabad High Court has written that:
‘On 21-08-2008, answer scripts of Farah Dogar were submitted to the chairman, who ordered on 10-09-2008: “Please have the answer book of this candidate re-assessed.’
Erroneously judged or purposefully twisted. Let us [...]
At the inception of 2007, General Musharraf’s roadmap was quite clear: to get himself elected for another five-year term from the outgoing assemblies and then to hold general elections in the country. He thought he could have manipulated the election results to ensure the return of PML (Q) to power or, at the most, could [...]
On 16th January 2009 during the final hearing of an issue before the Islamabad High Court, petitioner Azam Khan Sultanpuri, who is one of the challengers of extra 21 marks awarded to Farah Hameed Dogar, argued that the Chairman, Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) acted in gross violation of the rules while [...]
The submission of a bill for the repel of 17the amendment and 58 2 (B ) in parliament, (in the senate by Q league , and in the National assembly by MQM while PML (N) too has submitted its proposed bill to the PPP leadership )can be termed as a sort of challenge to the [...]
