Commentary

Hundreds Of ‘Lawyers’ Trading In City Courts On False Resumes Many fake lawyers are working as govt law officers, standing counsels and state attorneys. Around 400 […]

Foreign Juveniles There are about 8,000 Pakistanis who are languishing in different prisons across the world. Most Pakistanis are interned in Saudi Arabia, convicted of human […]

GMO-No! – A Constitutional Gridlock It has been reported that the federal government has recently approved over one hundred varieties of genetically modified cotton and corn […]

The Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act 2016: A Critique The Punjab Protection of Women Against Violence Act, 2016, is gaining more space than what it […]

Vitalising Legal Education Via Institutional Co-Operation The Pakistan Bar Council’s (PBC) Legal Education Rules (2015) reflect a welcoming initiative in the pursuit of changing the dilapidated 3-year […]

Approaches To Combat Parental Alienation During Child Custody Litigation Being a lawyer, I have witnessed that in most cases the flawed court systems were being manipulated […]

Pakistan – A Pseudo State The rights of the people of Pakistan would not have been trampled upon had the ruling elite faithfully followed the constitutional […]

Social Media: The Plenipotentiary A legal maxim reads “justice must not only be done but also be seen to be done”. A few days ago Unilever […]

How We Enable ‘Mob Mentality’ Recently a video was shared which showed Mr Junaid Jamshed being attacked by a few bearded men at Islamabad International Airport. Although […]

Muslim Personal Law vs State Law – Marriage & Divorce There is a deep concern growing in some quarters for the imploding moral fabric of our […]

Pakistanis In Foreign Jails Foreign Affairs Adviser on Foreign Policy to the Prime Minister Sartaj Aziz informed the Senate that about 8,000 Pakistanis are languishing in […]

No More Strikes, Please! When terrorists struck at a local court in Charsadda on March 7, 2016, and killed more than a dozen innocent people, right […]

How Judiciary Has Institutionalized Curb On Free Speech “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want […]

Pakistan Bar Council Goes Medieval Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer has observed that, “Lawyering like justicing rises and falls in reputation and esteem according as they serve […]

Problems With Legal Education In Pakistan: Are Pakistan Bar Council Legal Education Rules 2015 Enough? Legal education plays a vital role in any society. It is […]

What Lawmen Say About 5-Year LL.B Made Mandatory For All Some say it’ll deter the non-serious lot, increase professionalism; others see it as onerous for new-comers. […]

Women, Marriage, Religion And The Women Protection Bill The passing of the Protection of Women against Violence Bill in Punjab is a remarkable development. Although, the […]