The dark legacy of violence in Kashmir began on October 27, 1947, when the peaceful village of Gogo became the site of its first organized mass killing. Shortly after Indian … Read More
The 12th August 1948 Babarra massacre is by now a forgotten yet an essential part of our national past as are the cold blooded elimination of the sons of Sardar … Read More
Uninterrupted and uncorrupted flow of information from the state to the people is considered as an important and essential aspect for developing a progressive and homogeneous civil society in the … Read More
While preparing for the Civil Service exams a few years ago, I often heard a fellow aspirant praising the now-retired Justice Qazi Faez Isa as one of Pakistan’s finest constitutionalists. … Read More
MINE was one of the innumerable jaws that dropped watching that CBS interview of Ta-Nehisi Coates promoting his book, The Message a few weeks ago. It happened when anchor Tony … Read More
AFTER several weeks of preparations, Israel carried out its promised attack on Iran in the small hours of Saturday but the scale and scope of the air/missile strikes appeared limited. … Read More
SUCCESSIVE governments and parliaments in Pakistan have appeared obsessed with constitutional amendments related to the judiciary, especially the superior judiciary. Our parliament has so far passed 23 constitutional amendments. Formally … Read More
So far, we have lived in an era of arms control and disarmament efforts made during the cold war – though we have taken this for granted. The international security … Read More
For the 14th consecutive year, Pakistan ranks as ‘Not Free’ on Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net (FoTN) report, with greater internet outages and restrictions on the internet. The question … Read More
Now that Justice Yahya Afridi has been nominated as the next chief justice of Pakistan, and with the recent appointment of the third most senior judge as chief justice of … Read More
