Editorials

Pakistan’s democratic system is facing the biggest challenge in the face of the current judiciary-government conflict. Supreme Court of Pakistan and Chief Justice Saqib Nisar are seriously taking on the federal and provincial government’s performances. The CJ is taking a number of suo moto notices in Punjab and Sindh in order to check the provincial …

Prime Minister, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, met Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mian Saqib Nisar, on March 27th. The sudden and unscheduled meeting between the executive and judiciary’s heads stunned almost every political activist in the country. Both dignitaries released stereotypical statements after the meeting. Prime Minister’s camp says that he assured the CJ of the government’s …

Malala Yousafzai came to Pakistan 6 years after the lethal attack on her life. Her arrival was welcomed by the government in an unprecedented fashion. The government and the armed forces had kept news of her arrival under wraps until she landed in the capital amidst tight security. Exhilarated upon touching ground, Malala vowed to …

The Election Commission Pakistan’s (ECP) preliminary delimitation of electoral constituencies publication—issued earlier this month—of national, provincial and the FATA constituencies has received a backlash for its apparent anomalies. The allegations of anomalies, from both government and the opposition parties, have helped spiral fears about a possible delay in the elections 2018. A parliament’s committee convened …

Former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, sarcastically urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo-moto notice against alleged horse-trading in the Senate’s election. During a hearing at the Election Commission of Pakistan regarding the alleged horse-trading taking place in the Senate’s Election, State’s Minister for Information, Maryam Aurangzaib, requested Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Raza Khan …

Shahbaz Sharif has been appointed as the acting president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz by the unanimous agreement of his party, after the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that Nawaz Sharif cannot run the party as president after his disqualification. The decision made by Nawaz Sharif left him no choice, as his first priority for this …

Despite the verdict against Nawaz Sharif and his family, the elder Sharif’s earlier disqualification on Aqama, read Panama, irregularities created opportunities for political parties to present new narratives. The bye-elections race was ablaze with new fervor by political wielders and the masses alike. These circumstances lent a semblance of an ideological split within the country—between …

Pakistan has launched yet another crackdown against Jamaat-Ud-Dawa in order to save face at the Financial Action Task Force meeting (FATF is an intergovernmental organisation working against illegal finances and transactions) meeting next week in Paris. Pakistan fears that the meeting could result in the participants’ adoption of US backed motion to place Pakistan on …

The recent Lodhran bye Elections, NA 154, results alarmed PTI leadership. Their candidate Ali Tareen lost by a margin of 27000 votes to PML-N’s Syed Iqbal Shah. In 2015 Jahangir Tareen had won the elections from the very constituency with a sizable vote bank. What went wrong this time? The constituency was considered a secure …

Punjab police recently apprehended Imran Ali, the rapist and murderer of seven-year-old Zainab. His apprehension was expected to douse the emotional fury experienced by many Pakistanis, however that is not the case. On the contrary, several questions have been raised by society regarding the safety of children and the nature of such offenders. In the …