Category: Constitution

MQM served Establishment interests since 1980s through (1) sustained Karachi violence: bhatta,  parchi, street crimes, gang wars, target killings,… (2) creating political instability by becoming part of political engineering at the federal level (3) creating conditions for flight of Karachi’s capital to upcountry, (4) encouraging flight of intelligentia and brain drain from Karachi, (5) making…

اگر آپ ملک کی ترقی چاہتے ہیں تو اس 70 سالہ ناکام بیانیہ کی اندھا دھند تقلید چھوڑ دیں، جس کے چند بڑے نکات یہ ہیں:1. پاکستان کی زبوں حالی کی بنیاد مالی کرپشن ہے- جی نہیں، پاکستان کی زبوں حالی کی بنیاد مالی نہیں آئینی کرپشن ہے جو کہ اداروں کو تباہ و برباد…

بادشاہ کا گھوڑا اور انوسٹیگیشن کی نگرانی کے نگران:بادشاہ سلامت نے شاہی اصطبل کے لیے مہنگا ترین گھوڑا خریدا۔ کچھ دن بعد بادشاہ نے وزیر کے ہمراہ اپنے پسندیدہ گھوڑے کو دیکھنے کے لیے اصطبل کا دورہ کیا اور وزیر کو کہا کہ گھوڑا کمزور ہو رہا ہے ۔ وزیر نے معاملے کی تحقیقات کی…

Since the Justice Faez Isa case in the SJC and subsequent Supreme Court’s full bench hearing on Justice Isa’s petition, the Pakistani media brigade has gone full throttle against maligning all the judges of the superior courts. All ills have been heaped on the judges with insinuation about their integrity. This facebook post highlights who…

This slide in one glance tells you why there is a vicious campaign against the Supreme Court Judges. There is a new breed of SC judges that are not PCO-ed by dictators. This also tells the story of how Supreme Court controlled and manipulated. Only the judges who toe the lines of the dictators are…

چور مچائے شور: کرپشن قانون توڑ کر اپنے نفع کے لئے فیصلے کرنے کو کہتے ہیں، جس کے لئے اپنی جان بچانے کے لئے مک مکا و مٹی پاؤ کرنا بھی شامل ہے- ہمارے ساتھ پچھلے 70 سال سے اس ڈرامے کو نظریہ ضرورت کے نام پر ڈکٹیٹرز اپنے قانون توڑنے کے بعد بچاؤ کے…

[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Doctrine of Necessity (DoN) sword had been used to repeatedly dismiss civilian prime ministers of Pakistan prematurely, since 1950s. The DoN godfathers have played the role of 1st umpire, 2nd umpire and 3rd umpire interchangeably in…

[To understand the context of this post, please read At What Cost! Why Compute Economic Costs of Faulty Political Decisions] Our Honorable Prime Minister Imran Khan in the recent joint session of Parliament on Kashmir’s annexation by India, reminded the MNAs and Senators about Hitler’s fascism and Nazi Party. He explained fascist governments are those that…

کیا 5 ہزار کو لٹکانے سے کرپشن سے نجات ملے گی؟ انقلاب فرانس 40 ہزار مارے، انقلاب روس 20 ملین مارے: کوئی افاقہ،  بہتری، حل نہ ہوا! 1. Nations that forget history are forgotten by history. History tells us that mass killings, mass purges, indiscriminate hanging of suspects has never solved any problem for any…

Justice Munir’s Doctrine of Necessity Judgment is the most important single event in the history of Pakistan. The costs of Justice Munir’s Doctrine of Necessity have been 4 Martial Laws and 35 years of direct dictatorships. The remaining years of Pakistan’s existence have been spent fighting the booby traps inserted in the constitution by the dictators…

I would like to invite those interested in law and constitution to comment on this post. Here I am looking at the role of Suomoto Judgment in criminal cases and cases related to corruption. I think suo-moto was originally conceived in the constitution for constitutional cases and constitutional rights cases that require immediate action where…

What is common between Chief Martial Law Administrator (CMLA) and a Chief Judicial Martial Law Administrator (CJMLA) or a Chief Executive Martial Law Administrator (CEMLA)? “A creeping coup has taken place against the authority of the civilian government. The coup has taken place very quietly before the election,” Mr Farhatullah Babar said in a seminar…