In the quiet corners of family courts, louder than the gavel, rises the cry of a child, caught between parents who once loved and now battle. Custody disputes, though dressed in legal robes, are not merely matters of law. They are matters of the heart.
Love has turned sour. Trust has turned to dust. And so, the court is called—not just to decide—but to guide, not as a cold umpire of rules, but as a guardian of what truly matters
Abstract In the sprawling labyrinth of modern warfare, where battles are no longer fought solely in trenches and on distant battlefields, a new arena has emerged: […]
“The law of the land is also the law of generations.” In Pakistan, few legal disputes carry the same level of emotional and generational weight as […]
Pakistan is home to over 112 million children, nearly half of its population, yet millions continue to face severe challenges, as highlighted in the State of […]
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898(hereinafter referred to as Cr.P.C.), provides for the office of Justice of Peace to maintain public peace and order, and to […]
The rise of generative AI has unlocked new frontiers in how machines read, write, and reason, but what happens when this intelligence is built on a […]
The critics’ lament—“But that’s westernization!”—rings hollow. When Islamabad passed the Child Marriage Restraint Bill in May 2025, it did not just legislate; it made a statement. […]
The Sindh Healthcare Commission Act, 2013 (the SHCC Act) was enacted with the object and purpose of establishing the Sindh Healthcare Commission (the Commission), i.e., an […]
A company has been established as a separate legal entity in the case of Salomon[1], and courts have further elaborated on the corporation being its own […]
As the world races toward renewable energy, Pakistan has taken a step back, taxing solar panels just when they became a lifeline for the middle class. […]
Picture fair trial: an independent forum, an impartial judge, a detailed judgment, and a substantive right of appeal. Now, picture its absence: court-martials. Trials where guilt […]
The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Co-Pilot, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek has sparked a transformative debate in higher education, particularly […]
The notion that women are comparable to property, akin to wealth and land, is a troubling and outdated belief encapsulated in the phrase “Zan, Zar, Zameen”. […]
In May 2025, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari signed into law a long-awaited amendment raising the minimum legal age of marriage to 18 for both girls […]
On most mornings, Malik Israr Ahmed could be found pacing the narrow halls of the Attock District Courts, legal file in hand, blazer a touch weathered […]
After the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, water sharing became a pivotal concern between the two newly formed nations—India and Pakistan. This was largely due […]
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Munib Akhtar of the Supreme Court, both, have an established, longstanding judicial record to speak for their acumen and understanding of the law. Despite their respective chief justiceships having fallen victim to politics, strangled by the passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973, their widespread contributions to the jurisprudence in Pakistan are hard to ignore.