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Pakistan has never lacked sporting talent. From Olympic medalists and squash champions to internationally recognized cricketers and mountaineers, the country’s athletes have repeatedly demonstrated that excellence […]

“It is established law that the legislature has the plenary power to enact laws with retrospective and prospective effect subject to such laws not effecting past […]

Pakistan is facing a significant judicial crisis due to the enormous backlog of cases pending in its courts. Currently, there are approximately 2.3 million cases awaiting […]

For nearly a decade, Pakistan’s legal position on cryptocurrencies and digital assets was marked by ambiguity. Traders, investors, and exchanges operated in a legal vacuum. The Virtual […]

In Arshad alias Billu v. State, the Supreme Court of Pakistan directed all Inspectors General of Police to ensure that no derogatory or discriminatory terms are […]

The practice of offloading airline passengers at Pakistani airports ignites a debate all around the country and people have started questioning its legality. Although it is […]

The Honourable Ms. Justice Ayesha A. Malik has held that delays caused by the employer cannot be used as an excuse to deny or delay an […]

The only aftermath of Twenty-Seventh constitutional amendment happens to be the re-emergence of the debate surrounding the scope of parliament’s amending power. This renewed relevance necessitates […]

In its recent advisory opinion on States’ obligations in relation to climate change, the ICJ addressed several important dimensions of international environmental law. Most notably, it […]

After the 18th Amendment[1] to the Constitution[2], goods are taxed by the federal legislature, and the services by the provinces[3]. There is no concurrency in tax. For a particular transaction, the tax is either levied by the federal legislature, or by the provinces. Under the current framework, the supply of goods is taxed by the center under the Sales Tax Act, 1990. The provinces, after the 18th Amendment, have promulgated provincial legislations to bring the taxation on services within their provincial domain.

The precautionary principle is often underemphasized in discussions of international environmental law, but this principle is important as it shifts the burden of proof to those […]

The debate over the “Basic Structure” of the Constitution of Pakistan resurfaces after every major constitutional amendment. The theory suggests that certain core features of a […]

Introduction: Late Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court was a curmudgeonly textualist. So hardwired was he to his philosophy of textualism that any […]

The public relationship with artificial intelligence is becoming deeply personal. When OpenAI’s GPT-4o was briefly taken offline, users did not simply complain about losing an app but described […]

Co-authored by Kamran Adil and Warda Kamran Adil INTRODUCTION Due to the application of Hans Kelsen’s theory in a foundational constitutional case in Pakistan, he is […]

The story of Singapore is spectacular. In one generation, it became immensely rich. As Lee Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990, […]

The month of August 2025 saw major political upheavals.  First came the Alaska Summit, where President Trump met President Putin. Days later, in the White House, […]