Babar Sattar
In the journey from Pakistan Protection Ordinance to Pakistan Protection Act, many issues have been addressed.
Published 20 Jul, 2014 11:56pm
Reform will only result from a mindset and behavioral change at the highest level.
Published 14 Jul, 2014 01:28am
Does the PTI not realise that blackmailing a court into meting out desirable outcomes is a perversion of justice?
Published 07 Jul, 2014 01:15am
The PTI’s flirtation with the anarchists is worrying.
Published 30 Jun, 2014 01:03am
Do public officials resign when found guilty of heinous crimes or to redeem the moral authority of the government?
Published 23 Jun, 2014 01:24am
We are a nation adrift while our power elites are forging alliances that can produce no good.
Updated 17 Jun, 2014 01:01pm
Altaf Hussain’s ordeal shows the contrast between the UK’s commitment to rule of law and that of Pakistan.
Updated 09 Jun, 2014 11:38pm
DO you judge a society by how it treats its mighty or its vulnerable? What do you call a state that serves the...
Published 02 Jun, 2014 08:01am
WITH civil-military relations in a state of free fall, the PML-N can’t afford to play the role of a disinterested...
Published 26 May, 2014 07:08am
WHAT we are witnessing in Pakistan is a meltdown of the state and society, while hawks, intriguers, instigators,...
Published 19 May, 2014 06:50am
RASHID Rehman was told in court he would be killed for accepting the brief of a blasphemy accused. And then he was...
Published 12 May, 2014 07:40am
IN Shooting an Elephant George Orwell writes about how a person loses his own freedom most of all while practising...
Published 05 May, 2014 07:29am
“WE cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them,” Albert Einstein had argued....
Published 28 Apr, 2014 06:12am
Babar sattar chief Justice Tassaduq Jillani implored recently that, “we have to protect the constitutional values...
Updated 21 Apr, 2014 08:44am
WHAT will it take to slap our ruling civil and military elite out of its obsession with egotism, triviality and...
Published 14 Apr, 2014 07:42am
THERE is no reason to be neutral about the Musharraf trial. This trial is as much about Musharraf as it is about who...
Published 07 Apr, 2014 07:31am
DO all rulers wish for absolute power? Most of them probably do. Do they have their wish granted? Not many in this...
Published 31 Mar, 2014 08:02am
OUR transformation from a predatory state to a predatory society is complete. We have reconciled with the reality...
Published 24 Mar, 2014 07:01am
THE chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), Muhammad Khan Sheerani, has stated that prohibition of child...
Updated 10 Dec, 2016 11:05am
THE transactional approach of our rulers toward terror groups initially aroused concern and shock, followed by ...
Published 10 Mar, 2014 07:50am
