Politics

Electoral Reforms: One Key To Many Doors The importance of identification, investigation and eradication of corruption and the corrupt cannot possibly be undermined. Electoral reforms however, […]

Of Flags And Anthems: New Political Party And Vexillology Former Karachi Mayor Mustafa Kamal after his return to Pakistan offered a new political party to fellow […]

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 […]

Kamal Allegations: Question Of Fact? Joint venture of Mustafa Kamal and Qaim Khawani making allegations on Altaf Hussain and MQM for being involved with RAW, opens […]

Political & Statutory Victimisation Of National Accountability Bureau How can one expect the National Accountability Bureau to function fearlessly when its Chairperson is appointed by the […]

Pakistani Democracy Is Not Meant For The People Pakistani democracy, though it is ‘by’ the people, it is not meant ‘for’ the people. Actually, Pakistani democracy is […]

Freedom Beheaded The year 2016 begins with the news of Saudi Arabia executing 47 terrorists gallantly. A strong message to all those out there that the […]

Former Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Chaudhry Launches Political Party ISLAMABAD: Former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry launched on Friday a political party namely […]

A Balancing Act The US has a shoddy reputation regarding the treatment of civilians at the hands of its military overseas. While US military actions in […]

Brazil’s Supreme Court Bans All Corporate Political Donations In order to combat corruption and the influence of economic power on politics and the electoral process, Brazil’s […]

Obeying Illegal Orders From Superiors: Guidelines for Civil Servants   “You may even be put to trouble not because you are doing anything wrong but because […]

Panel Discussion on “Local Government: Our Chance for Real Democracy” The team at Courting The Law attended an interactive and interesting panel discussion around local government […]

An Opportunity Lost The judicial Commission was created pursuant to the General Elections 2013 Inquiry Commission Ordinance, 2015, to; “answer its TORs by uncovering its relevant […]

There has been a swing in judicial pendulum between assertion and abnegation, between withdrawal and return, but irrespective of the role the Judges have played from […]

Let us not forget that the Judicial Commission’s mandate was to unearth systematic/organized rigging, and not the localized one in each constituency, which can only be […]

 Saadia is an Op-Ed Editor at The Nation and does illustrations for The Friday Times and Courting The Law.