Pak-Turk Schools Case and Proposals for Regulating Supreme Court’s Powers Under A.184(3) [Download the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Pak-Turk Schools case here: SC Judgment – Pak Turk […]
Kulbhushan, ICJ and Pakistan – Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence
Kulbhushan, ICJ and Pakistan – Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague has begun oral proceedings in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case between India […]
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights Under CPEC [Part 2]
Understanding Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of CPEC [Part 2] In the last article, the issues that were examined included the fundamentals of […]
Has the Judicial System Legitimized Undemocratic Systems in the Past?
Has the Judicial System Legitimized Undemocratic Systems in the Past? Introduction – Democracy and the Rule of Law Owing to constant unconstitutional behaviors in the past, […]
NAB Law and the Bones of Contention
NAB Law and the Bones of Contention Background The word anti-corruption predates the making of the country. The first law to address it, known as the […]
Is There A Place For Morality In The Rule Of Law?
Is There A Place For Morality In The Rule Of Law? This writing explores the question of rule of law and morality: what we mean by […]
A Brief Round Up of Cyber Crime Law In Pakistan
A Brief Round Up of Cyber Crime Law In Pakistan Cyber crime is a crime in which criminal activities are carried out by means of computers […]
Know Your Taxes
Know Your Taxes Taxation in sovereign countries like Pakistan has developed into two types. The “direct tax” that you have to pay is called as such […]
Asia Bibi Case Verdict: Fallacious Arguments And Our National Mindset
Asia Bibi Case Verdict: Fallacious Arguments And Our National Mindset The Supreme Court of Pakistan, the leading judicial body of Pakistan, recently announced the verdict in […]
Contribution Of Justice A.R. Cornelius To The Jurisprudence Of Pakistan
Contribution Of Justice A.R. Cornelius To The Jurisprudence Of Pakistan It is true that the underdevelopment of jurisprudence owing to a lack of juristic work has […]
Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights Under CPEC [Part 1]
Understanding Foreign Direct Investment and Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of CPEC [Part 1] This is the first article in a series of articles which will examine […]
Rules Of State Responsibility On Nuclear Disarmament
Rules Of State Responsibility On Nuclear Disarmament The law of state responsibility is concerned with the determination of whether a state has committed a wrongful act […]
Judicial Review: An Aggressive Exercise?
Judicial Review: An Aggressive Exercise? Black’s Law Dictionary defines judicial activism as the philosophy of judicial decision-making whereby judges allow their personal views about public policy, […]
Questionable Tinkering With Retirement Age of Senior Judiciary
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Questionable Tinkering With Retirement Age of Senior Judiciary Let us first get one thing straight, and this humble author would […]
Foreign Arbitration Agreements – A Pakistani Perspective
Foreign Arbitration Agreements – A Pakistani Perspective Recently, a fellow columnist authored an article[1] titled “Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards In Pakistan” published on 15 December […]
Merits of the Anti-Encroachment Drive in Karachi
Merits of the Anti-Encroachment Drive in Karachi We are all aware of the ongoing anti-encroachment drive in Karachi. The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Saqib Nisar […]
Aasia Bibi – More Sinned Against than Sinning
Aasia Bibi – More Sinned Against than Sinning Recently a judgment was announced by the European Court of Human Rights in which it was categorically stated […]