Islamabad, Pakistan: Speaker Punjab Assembly Malik Ahmad Khan while addressing the media on Monday used very strong-worded language, calling the ongoing tussle between the parliament and the judiciary a kind of ‘judicial gunda gardi’ (judicial vandalism). In the same talk, he praised Chief Minister Punjab Maryum Nawaz like a poet of a Greek court praising his king. This actually represents the mindset of the custodian of a provincial House that the House is standing behind the ruling Nawaz family in a blunt war with the higher judiciary. I believe that PMLN as well as the higher judiciary are suggesting to each other through one of the couplets of Faiz Ahmad Faiz: Na ganvaao naavak-e-neemkash, dil-e-rezaa-rezaa ganvaa diya (Stay your half-drawn arrow, waste it not—this heart lies splintered, long dispersed.) Jo bache the sang samet lo, tan-e-daag daag lutaa diya (Gather up such stones as you can, this body lies rent, its day is done.) Whenever the government thinks that it can resolve its issues with judges of…

Islamabad, Pakistan: The Supreme Court of Pakistan has issued a detailed judgment in the case related to reserved seats, but after this judgment, the perception has been strengthened that there is still a group of politically motivated judges in the Supreme Court who are facilitating PTI as former Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and other used to do. It is still remembered that the founding chairman of PTI Imran Khan and former leader of PTI Asad Umar revealed on television screens that the then Justice Asif Saeed Khosa ‘requested’ Imran Khan to file a petition against the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 2017 instead of protesting on roads. PTI submitted the petition that ended with the disqualification of the then-prime minister Nawaz Sharif. There are reasons to believe that such practice is yet to stop and several judges of higher courts are constantly facilitating PTI and providing reliefs and even National Assembly seats that PTI had not even demanded. The latest evidence of this has also come out from the…

ISLAMABAD: Undeterred by the Supreme Court’s detailed verdict in the reserved seats case, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar on Monday reiterated the government’s stance that the reserved...

The highest court has found that ECP’s "conduct demonstrates that it failed to fulfil its constitutional role in the 2024 General Elections,” says Barrister Rida Hosain.