Commentary

Earlier this year, the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) came to a close. Just by this, you can tell […]

The Islamabad High Court’s recent judgment, addressing the hazardous and degrading working conditions of sewerage laborers, represents a significant development in Pakistan’s constitutional discourse on equality, […]

The National Commission for Minorities’ Rights Bill 2025 represents a landmark step in Pakistan’s legislative response to the protection of religious minorities. This legislation operationalizes a […]

Justice Ali Baqar Najafi’s additional note in the Noor Muqaddam judgment – where he frames an unimaginably brutal murder as a warning against “vice” and “living […]

The comparison between the 18th Amendment and the later 26th–27th Amendments becomes even sharper when examined through the lens of constitutionalism and the basic structure doctrine. […]

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 […]

Islamabad, October 27, 2025 – The National Institute of Maritime Affairs (NIMA) proudly unveiled its flagship publication, “Navigating Legal Horizons: Seafarers’ Manual on Naval Operations and […]

Women constitute more than half of the population of Pakistan. However, they seldom get financial freedom due to the patriarchal nature of the society and structural […]

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 […]

In Pakistan, the courts have a severe backlog of more than 2.3 million cases, while there are only approximately 4,300 judges to handle them. For normal […]

Artificial intelligence (AI) covers technologies such as machine learning, generative models, automated decision-making, and facial recognition. AI offers advances in healthcare, agriculture, and governance, but policymakers […]

In Pakistan’s firearms scheme, the phrase “prohibited bore” denotes automatic rifles, sub-machine guns, and similar high-calibre weapons whose licences are issued only by the Federal Government. […]

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, […]

In a landmark decision that can bring a breakthrough to South Asian water diplomacy, an international arbitration tribunal has categorically denied India its demand to suspend […]

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, […]