Guest Columnists

Banking and Finance Law Needs Implementation Rather Than Amendments It is a matter of fact that quite a few laws in our country are over a […]

The #MeToo Movement Sets Precedent In Combating Sexual Harassment “In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or […]

Recovery of Dowry According to Islam and Pakistani Law This piece of research has been divided into two parts: Part I. Concept of dowry in Islam; […]

The Case of Colonel Joseph in Light of International Law I- INTRODUCTION In the modern world, the sovereignty of the state is best exercised by applying […]

Making Punjab Safe City Authority Smarter As a general observation, technological innovation in the public sector in Pakistan does not sustain well. The reason is that […]

Failed Attempt! The laws in Pakistan are ancient, to say the least. For instance, the Civil Procedure Code (CPC), the predominant law regulating the procedure of […]

FATF Approval Not Required For Tax Amnesty Scheme The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey-listing debate continues to be an important issue for the Pakistani government […]

Beyond Precedent The recent judgement on the changes made to Election Act 2017 (which repealed the Political Parties Ordinance 2002 — PPO), whereby Nawaz Sharif was […]

Khula After Death I recently read an article written by a fellow columnist titled “Khula: A Gateway of Escape For Women”[1] that intrigued my interest to […]

Defending The Qazi And His Rules Whenever judicial discretion is under discussion, it is the poor qazi and the rules applied by him that are put under the […]

Aspire To Inspire Had Madam Asma Jahangir confined herself to being just a human rights activist, she would not have earned so much recognition and appreciation […]

Increasing the Retirement Age and Enhancing Pakistan’s Economic Outlook A recent recommendation (by the then Senate Chair) to enhance the retirement age of a professor to […]

Restricting Cartels As the 20th century dawned, Queen Victoria was in her 63rd year on the British throne. However, world affairs since Her Majesty assumed the […]

The De Facto Doctrine Should Not Be Taken Lightly Background The release of Panama Papers (commonly termed as the ‘Panama Leaks’) took Pakistan by storm, as […]

Regulating Business In The Telecom Sector The telecom indicators showing the health of telecom sector in Pakistan are very impressive. As per the data exhibited on […]

Unexplained Wealth Orders The UK National Crime Agency last week announced that it had been granted the power to enforce an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) worth […]

Foreign Arbitration Laws – An Appellate Adventure of Pakistani Courts Pakistan is an agro-economic country that benefits from the sale of grains, rice, cotton yield and […]