A meeting was held between the Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and the Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa in response to the letter of 6 Judges of the Islamabad High Court to the CJP and other senior Judges complaining of interference by the ISI and other intelligence agenciesContinue Reading
Unprecedented media suppression in Pakistan as journalist’s critical interview is silenced amid a government crackdown. Concerns rise over threats to free speech and expression. A disquieting thing happened yesterday. Three days back a Pakistani journalist Ali Hasnain Shah, who works as researcher/producer with Khabarhar Team of Aftab Iqbal, called me on whatsappContinue Reading
The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faez Isa, is a disgrace to Pakistan’s judiciary, and reminds one the ‘hanging judge’ Judge Jeffreys. In my video interview to the Pakistani journalist Waqar Bagga of siasat.pk I had mentioned about Qazi Faez Isa’s misbehaviour on the 15 member full bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court hearingContinue Reading
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was deposed in April 2022, and later arrested, and has been confined since early August in a tiny, dingy cell in jail with few amenities. About 180 criminal cases have been foisted against him, so that if he is acquitted in one, he will beContinue Reading
I have the highest respect for former Prime Minister Imran Khan‘s wife Bushra bibi But first I must make a confession. I had in the past ridiculed her on twitter etc by calling her ‘pinky peerni’, who does ‘jaadu tona’, and by saying that she has two djinns in aContinue Reading
One would have thought that the job of an army chief is to protect his country’s borders, and render assistance to the civilian authorities in cases of internal disturbances when asked by the latter. But it seems that the Pakistan army chief, Gen Munir, has other ideas, and believes he can fix Pakistan’s tumbling economy. He recently heldContinue Reading
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is prominently in the news these days, and I have been his strong supporter on the social media for long ( though I have never personally met him and am not connected to him in any way ), as he is bravely leading the democraticContinue Reading
After former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was ordered to be released on bail in the toshakhana case by the Islamabad High Court he was rearrested in the cypher case, and will be tried in Attock jail where he has been incarcerated. The question is whether such a trialContinue Reading
I can’t understand why Pakistanis are protesting against exorbitant electricity bills and rise in gas and oil charges ? After all, Pakistan is an Islamic State, and people living in Madina ki Riyaasat lived without electricity. I cannot imagine the Prophet leading a demonstration of people demanding electricity. So why cannot PakistanisContinue Reading
By Justice KatjuI have been following developments in Pakistan on the social media for long, and now my mind has started spinning and my eyes boggling. Sometimes I feel like Alice in the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party ( see Lewis Carrol’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ ). The latest event there reallyContinue Reading