Although Pakistan has in some areas moved slowly towards pro-female legislation, most women remain either unaware of their legally-recognised rights or are prevented from using them by a patriarchal society and a traditional mindset. Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of Section 18 of the nikahnama (Muslim marriage contract), which — subject [...]
Long March of lawyers’ community started from Karachi and Quetta is about to reach its destination (Constitutional Avenue). Where the stage has been set for the speeches by the CJP Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, retired justices, President Supreme Court Bar Association Mr Aitezaz Ahsan, Senior Lawyers Ali Ahmad Kurd etc and many present and ex-Presidents of [...]
Long march has just started from two main cities of Pakistan, Karachi (Sindh Province) and Quetta (Balouchistan Province). From Karachi lawyers on buses, coaches and cars shall reach Hyderabad (second largest city of Sindh) and a group will join the incoming lawyers. It will then reach Sukkur city and wait for the groups of lawyers [...]
Politics is a dirty game. Even worse when it should be done putting at risk the peace and stability of the nation, something that has been happening in our country for quite some time now. Conspiracies are on a rise.
There are people from among us who don’t want to see the present government continue peacefully [...]
“Rules are for fools”, ‘Might is Right’. After March 9, 2007, every morning people of Pakistan wake up, these statements strike (like a hammers) the minds of millions living here. ‘Justice’ is pleading for justice, ‘Justice’ is pleading for justice, ‘Justice’ is pleading for justice, . . . . [...]
Another women’s day had passed. I was invited to four different events that day, but I chose the one organized by Goethe Institute and Oxford University Press. It was the launch of a book that was the effort of young Pakistani writers. A year ago, young writers’ competition was launched, 600 stories were submitted and [...]
The Lawyer had announced one day before elections that Mach 9th is the dead line for the new government to re-instate judiciary. This date last year was the day when Chief Justice of Pakistan Mr Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary (who is currently under house arrest for many months) was called to Presidency camp office, Rawalpindi, and [...]
The part that the democracy plays among the people of a nation is coming to be better understood and more generally recognized than it was in the earlier period of our history. The term “democracy” is now in such common usage as to represent an admission of reality.
But there still is lack of public understanding [...]
Whenever, elections are announced the wave of violence erupts, firing incidents, bomb explosions. I remember in 1993 two candidates going to Quetta from surrounding areas of Sibi (Balouchistan) to file their papers to contest elections. Upon approaching before each others fierce gun battle started and this fierce fighting was witnessed for about 72 hours killing [...]
Truth is not determined by majority vote. If the majority of world leaders keep saying the Muslims are terrorists, that does not become the truth. If the majority of people say; this door is a window; in democratic terms it will be a window, that is the principle of democracy, majority is right. If the [...]
