Asfand Yar Warraich
Saviours are obsessed with legacies. Hence, calls for restraint and reform were snubbed.
Updated 08 May, 2023 09:27am
This is a sign: our brutalisation as a society is nearing completion.
Updated 29 Mar, 2023 08:56am
Today, we have three distinct classes of citizens.
Published 21 Jan, 2023 06:35am
Our armed forces receive only a marginal reference in our constitutional framework.
Updated 15 Dec, 2022 09:55am
For all their shallow calls for ‘civilian supremacy’, it is difficult to feel sorry for our political class.
Updated 26 Aug, 2022 09:05am
We lawyers are a professional mafia unlike any other, who, with astonishing regularity beat up or threaten judges and court staff.
Updated 07 Jul, 2022 08:53am
It is not principle but political expediency that determines who gets to protest and who does not.
Published 09 Jun, 2022 08:26am
What lessons should we, as humankind, extract from our uncomfortable relationship with slavery?
Published 19 May, 2022 07:42am
General after general torpedoed our democratic process, irreparably retarding its natural development.
Updated 22 Apr, 2022 06:15pm
The law cannot protect them, because the state has placed the person beyond its reach.
Published 11 Mar, 2022 08:24am
In the past decade or so, we have seen some mind-bending jurisprudential gymnastics.
Updated 23 Dec, 2021 08:00am
Expressions of gender nonconformity are shamed and demonised.
Published 27 Nov, 2021 07:07am
As we ruminate over the consequences of America making a mockery of international law, it is equally important to take an inward
Published 17 Sep, 2021 07:15am
Like most other liberties, the right to religious freedom is a two-way street.
Updated 19 Jul, 2021 10:36am
Our bail regime is antiquated, anti-poor and built on questionable foundations.
Published 27 May, 2021 06:46am
The harsh truth is that our media operates in a dangerously negotiated space.
Published 29 Apr, 2021 06:48am
It is time for course correction; the state must develop a counter-narrative.
Updated 29 Mar, 2021 08:38am
The process is far more complicated if you are a Muslim woman.
Updated 19 Mar, 2021 08:35am
The judiciary is accountable to no one other than themselves and a free press remains the only bulwark against its excesses.
Updated 15 Feb, 2021 08:09am
There are many state actors who must shoulder the blame for their present condition.
Updated 18 Jan, 2021 08:23am
