Much has already been made of the NAB judgment and the standards of judicial skill evidenced in its delivery. Politicians and pundits alike have taken to treating it as they do the annual finance budget: listen to each other’s opinions and then denounce them or support them as awam dost/awam dushman. If one were to…

Anyone who bought Bahria Town plots is panicking today. In the morning, on Friday, news broke that the Supreme Court had issued a verdict against Bahria Town. It found that it bought land from the Malir Development Authority illegally to set up its mega project off the Karachi super highway. The Supreme Court said: Bahria…

The Army of the Righteous is banned—but it still works everywhere What is our problem? Our problem is terrorism. If you are asked to define a state in martial terms, it can be reduced to: the owner of the monopoly of violence within a determined and accepted set of borders. Terrorism has deprived the Pakistani…