IF court orders are not obeyed, they are not worth the paper they are written on. By extension, judges who pass these orders which are ignored are exposed as less...

WHEN denying bail to the mother of accused murderer Zahir Jaffer, the district court had to counter reams upon reams of case law cited in favour of bail given to...

THE original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, of which suo motu proceedings are a variant, is limited by the Constitution to the “enforcement of fundamental rights” for a “question of...

JUSTICE Faez Isa has won. His review petition challenging the directions given to the FBR to probe his family by the full bench of the Supreme Court has been accepted....

IN answering the reference asking whether Senate elections are held under the Constitution and hence by secret ballot, the Supreme Court solved a political problem for the government. This required...

“When you play the game of thrones; you win or you die.” — George R.R. Martin IF you run a political party on the basis of myths and memories rather...

OUR state’s poor ability to investigate and then prosecute is evident in the current accountability drive. That the process required ‘external influence’ despite the weight of evidence collected against our…