Guest Columnists

Requiem For A Dream It is despicable for Pakistan Bar Council to propagate that judges of the honorable courts do not have powers to suspend the […]

Judicial Accountability Begins At Home  Ch. Muhammad Akram v Registrar Islamabad High Court (IHC) The Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan, in a recent judgment titled Ch. […]

Accountability In The Land Of The Pure Self-accountability is no accountability in a country such as Pakistan. Even the so-called independent bodies of accountability like the […]

Pakistan’s Case For Democracy The American diplomat Richard Holbrooke pondered over a problem on an evening of September 1996 during the elections in Bosnia which were […]

Religious Minority Representation In Political Process Conspicuously Absent Despite a lapse of 69 years, religious minority communities of the country lack representation in mainstream politics. A […]

Drowned To Be Cleansed – A Tale Of The “Honourable” Women In Pakistan Pakistan, for 69 years, has experienced the role of the formal judicial law […]

A Need For ‘Good Samaritans Law’ In Pakistan? To help or aid a stranger in dire need of medical assistance ought to be one’s moral, ethical […]

Whether Deputation/ Absorption Into NAB Is Legal The august Supreme Court of Pakistan has recently taken suo moto notice on an anonymous letter pertaining to the alleged […]

Imperial Black Law Which Continues To Plague The Tribal Areas Of Pakistan Introduction and Historical Background Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) is a law governing the Federally […]

Victims Of Parental Alienation Syndrome: Children Of Divorced Parents Can Easily Be Manipulated To Give False Accounts Court’s powers with regard to custody of minor are […]

In Memory Of Qandeel Baloch: Loopholes In Pakistan’s First Anti-Rape & Anti-Honor Killing Laws On 6th October, 2016, Pakistan passed its very first anti-honor killings and […]

Pakistan Bar Council Legal Education Rules 2015 – A Legal Critique The question of legal education in Pakistan is a hot topic these days. This is […]

The Unwilling Gatekeepers Of The Internet – Internet Service Providers And The Prevention Of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 What is Intermediary Liability? From service providers that […]

The State Of Transgender Rights In Pakistan It is worth questioning ourselves whether in a country that struggles to provide food, shelter and clothing to its […]

Revisiting Our Social Contract The total fiasco of the existing order implicates the drawing up of a new “social contract” in Pakistan to guarantee the provision […]

Rising Again Pakistan signed, ratified and adopted the UN Convention on Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 1996. Even with this international […]

Dilemma Of The Pakistani Legal System “All existing laws shall be brought in conformity with the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran […]