Commentary

The Haq In Mahr We are no strangers to the fact that before the advent of Islam, barring the scarce women from the upper class, the […]

Flaws In The Legal Education System Of Pakistan Efforts are consistently being made to improve the standards of the legal education system in Pakistan. An attempt […]

‘Foreign-Aided’ Party and Prohibited Funds  “Other than reasonable restrictions in the interest of the sovereignty or integrity of Pakistan, any other restriction that abridges or in […]

Criminals In Our Inbox Door-to-door marketing is not very common in Pakistan for a number of reasons. Even in other countries, technological developments in marketing and […]

Understanding the Jadhav Case at the International Court of Justice (India v. Pakistan) Both India and Pakistan recently presented oral arguments on provisional measures before the […]

Legal Propositions In Jadhav’s Case In ICJ The government has been rendering clarifications for last few days with respect to the legal strategy adopted in Jadhav’s […]

In Defense Of Justice Before starting, let me clarify that I am not a lawyer. I am just an ordinary citizen of Pakistan who looks at […]

Views On Justice Khosa’s Dissent The highly anticipated judgment in the Panama Leaks case was finally announced on April 20, 2017 by a five-member bench of the […]

Engineering Standards and Quality The construction industry in Pakistan is now growing faster than ever, largely due to the participation of private housing developments. It just […]

Kulbushan Jadhav – Much Ado About Nothing Pakistan has taken many adverse hits in the past year in the international legal arena: most prominent among these […]

Torture: An Undefined Word In The Pakistani Legal System  Article 1 of United Nations Convention Against Torture (CAT) defines torture in the following terms: For the purposes of […]

Disqualification Case Against Imran Khan In a case filed by Muhammad Hanif Abbasi against Imran Khan Niazi (Constitution Petition 35 of 2016) in the Supreme Court of […]

ICJ’s (Lack of) Jurisdiction in Jadhav’s Case The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has initiated proceedings to determine whether ICJ has jurisdiction to adjudicate a matter […]

International Court of Justice’s Limited Jurisdiction India has approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) seeking to stay the execution of Kulbhushan Jadhav. India has raised […]

India’s Naïvety On Kulbhushan’s Case Article 36 of the Statute of  ICJ clearly specifies that the Court has jurisdiction only on the basis of ‘consent’. India […]

Involvement Of Government In Business The involvement of government in businesses has always been a perplexing question for me. After a lot of contemplation, I have […]

The Supreme Court; Not A Trial Court The Constitution of Pakistan grants three kinds of jurisdiction to the Supreme Court, namely, original jurisdiction under Article 184, […]