Amir Wasim Updated June 10, 2019 ISLAMABAD: In a significant development, the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has formed special committees in all the four provinces and in Islamabad to identify “inefficient and corrupt judges” and to “prepare” references against them. PBC vice chairman Amjad Shah told Dawn on Sunday that the committees would submit their […]
Haseeb Bhatti Updated May 12, 2018 A note authored by Justice Qazi Faez Isa, elaborating on an unusual development which led to him being excluded from a three-member bench earlier this week, surfaced on Saturday in which the judge appeared to take exception to him being excluded from a bench hearing a human rights case. […]
A look at the life and work of one of Pakistan’s most cited judges, currently named in a reference before the SJC. Justice Isa is slated to become the Chief Justice of Pakistan in 2023.—Photo courtesy Supreme Court website Biography Born in Quetta on October 26, 1959, Justice Qazi Faez Isa is the son of […]
BY MUHAMMAD MAJID BASHIR A bilateral offence Everywhere in the world, marriage without consent or against the consent of the boy or girl is illegal. All over the world, every religion, customary and conventional law, have declared marriage as a civil contract. However, we deliberately neglect the prerequisite of a civil contract that is; a free […]
EXCEPTIONAL personal moral standards ought to be a prerequisite for holding high public office, particularly in the case of those whose task it is to judge the morality of others. But unfortunately, such high standards are in short supply in this land of the pure. That has led to diminishing public trust in our state […]
KARACHI: An international team of experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO) arrived here on Tuesday to support the response to an outbreak of HIV in northwestern Sindh at a request of the federal government, officials in the Sindh health ministry said. Director general of health Dr Masood Solangi, who received the team at the […]
Since our school-going years, we have been familiar with maxims like these, “Justice delayed is justice denied”. “Do justice even if heaven falls”. Justice keeps balance and order in a society and gears it towards prosperity and progress. While an unjust society cannot even imagine to prosper and progress because it collapses sooner or later […]
