My first political blog, here on Pakspectator, dealt with An American Perspective on the US Courts, in the US, in July, 2007. At the time, Pakistan had recently seen its Supreme Court judges removed from power, so my blog described the powers of the US Supreme Court, as well as limits to those powers from [...]
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” is a credo penned down in his letter from Birmingham Jail, on 16th of April, 1963 by Dr. Martin Luther King, a U.S black civil rights leader and clergyman (1929-1968). No matter how civilized this modern world manifests itself, ironically enhancing racism on all parts of this [...]
I have recently finished reading the excellent biography Benjamin Franklin, by Edmund S. Morgan. Franklin is my personal favorite among the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, an inspirational example, and, by all accounts, a delightful and brilliant human being. I can’t presume to speak for what Franklin, dead more than 200 years, [...]
