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
On 16th July, 1945, in a desert in Alamogordo in the state of New Mexico, U.S.A. the first atomic explosion in the world took place at 5.45 a.m. which changed the world. The Director of the Manhattan Project, which manufactured the atomic bomb, was Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, one ofContinue Reading
Pakistan is in a terrible situation. The government is bankrupt and the economy is in shambles. Massive protests are being held everywhere against exorbitant electricity bills, and rise in prices of oil, gas and food. The political situation is dismal, and a reign of terror has been imposed by the army and police,Continue Reading
One summer evening a little girl called Alice was dozing on a green meadow when she saw a white rabbit wearing a blue coat running on two legs, and seeing a watch said ” My God, I am late ”. Saying this it jumped into a hole on the ground.Continue Reading
By Justice KatjuThe President of Pakistan Arif Alvi has stirred up a hornet’s nest in Pakistan by this tweet :” As God is my witness, I did not sign Official Secrets Amendment Bill 2023 & Pakistan Army Amendment Bill 2023 as I disagreed with these laws. I asked my staffContinue 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
Justice Benjamin Cardozo, the celebrated Judge of the US Supreme Court, wrote in his book ‘The Nature of the Judicial Process’ : ” A Judge is not a Knight Errant roaming at will in search of his own ideal of beauty and goodness ”.I submit with respect that the recentContinue Reading
A lawyer friend of mine , who is now no more, was a few years older than me. He told me this story when I was a lawyer in Allahabad. In the late 1950s a Convocation was held in the Allahabad University. In this function some University students, including myContinue Reading
An Article by Justice Katju A few years back some elderly relatives of mine wanted to visit the Akshardhaam temple in Delhi, so I took them there.Among other things there, is a cultural boat-ride inside a tunnel, and we went on it. Inside this tunnel are scenes from ancient IndianContinue Reading
Many years back I was invited by the then Vice Chancellor of JNU ( Jawaharlal Nehru University ), Delhi for dinner along with about a dozen Professors of the University I was told that the budget of the University Grants Commission was Rs.41,000 crore in the Five Year plan, andContinue Reading