The Peca menace
The FIR registered against Senator Azam Swati fits a pattern visible since 2017: use of Section 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) 2016, with cognisable sections of the Pakistan Penal Code, to arrest individual...
October 20, 2022
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Climate justice at home
Climate justice must begin at home. Increasing human and economic losses from climate-induced disasters has spurred a national debate in the country. Globally, too, many activists and policymakers urge compensation or reparati...
Reforms in power sector
The eyewash of ‘drastic’ measures approved by the federal cabinet in the name of power-sector ‘reforms’ underscores how deeply ad hocism is rooted in Pakistani officialdom. The decision to chuck out corrupt officials fro...
Pakistan vs India
Merely days after news outlets across the border reported that the Indian cricket board was open to sending their national team to Pakistan for the Asia Cup next year, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has snuffed out whatever hopes there...
Uncertainty prevails
Uncertainty continues to reach unprecedented levels. It reigns supreme over calm and predictability, and will continue to do so in the future. The international order is being stretched to its breaking point, and leaders worl...
Reforms for justice : Part – I
In a widely circulated video, Justice Isa asks those assembled for the 9th International Judicial Conference in Islamabad if they are satisfied with the justice system. No one raises their hand. This is alarming. At the same ...
The exploiter and the exploited
We have turned into a society where exploitation is a game too many people play. We see it in the cases hanging before the courts, where pensioners from banks and other institutions, many of them now sick and some who have alrea...
The importance of devolution
After a long time there was some hope that Karachi would finally have a functioning local government system following the planned elections that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has now postponed – a decision it will ...
The brewing crisis in education
The state-run school in the suburban Australian town where I was attending a yearlong training course had asked parents of aspiring students, especially the international students, to meet the teaching staff. Our concerns were a...
Elections delayed
Already three months behind schedule, the second phase of local bodies elections in Sindh has been delayed yet again after the Election Commission of Pakistan accepted the provincial government’s request to push elections by a...