Human Trafficking: The Great Commodity Exchange

While no comprehensive study of forced and bonded labour can ever be completed, there are estimates that the trafficking “industry� touches 20 to 65 million Indians.

People of Gilgit Baltistan Waiting to be Heard

A week after sending this letter to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, emergency was imposed in Pakistan, constitution was suspended and the Chief Justice was deposed.

Dispensation of Justice is the Main Pillar of Democracy

The three constitutions, framed in Pakistan, proved to be just pieces of paper; their sanctity frequently violated by the men with guns, and by those who authored and approved these documents.

Emergency:What Lies Ahead For Pakistan?

The politic body, already decimated, raped and largely turned into a mob of opportunist has yet again been put on the dissecting table for surgical procedure by butchers.

Law of Necessity… A Logical Recourse

All military interventions in Pakistan have a distinction of getting legal/constitutional indemnity in two phases. First, the judiciary legalises the intervention...

A Sad Day for Pakistan

September 28, 2007 was a sad day for every citizen who hoped that the courts may finally bury the doctrine of necessity.

Musharraf and Pakistan: A Message for the Secretary General of the Commonwealth

Let not the Commonwealth make Musharraf 'an exception story'. Call a spade a spade. Tell it how it is.

An Unconditional Commitment to Pluralism

It means accepting a Hindu as a Hindu, a Muslim as a Muslim, a Jew as a Jew, an atheist as an atheist, an unbeliever as an unbeliever and it means respecting that choice.

Section 144: Ban on public gatherings

The section 144 has its roots in British constitution of 1938. British needed it to secure their imperialistic interests. The question is whose imperialistic needs it is serving now?

Betrayal of Great expectations?

The absurdity of the theater that we find ourselves in never ceases to amaze even the most insensitive amongst us

Saving Pakistan with the Constitution

When the regime breaks the citizen’s contract with its people – that of the Constitution – do the citizens have every right to break away from the state?

People of Gilgit Baltistan: The Political Orphans

The government claims that giving constitutional status to Gilgit Baltistan will be a detriment to the Kashmir liberation movement. So, I am sacrificing for my Kashmiri brothers and sisters. I will never be able to have my name on the electoral list of

Lament of a Disillusioned Citizen

You know how Wasi Zafar could have scored major brownie points in my book? All he had to do was come out and say: “Pervez Musharraf won’t take off his uniform until he damn well feels like it and there isn’t a damn thing anyone can do ab

Pakistan’s Territorial Integrity: Lessons from American Democracy

Kalabagh Dam issue divides us today. Pakistanis can take a leaf from the USA.What was true of American states in the 1770s and 80s is true for Pakistani provinces today. We must hang together or else we would hang separately

Secularism and Liberal Democracy

The US Supreme Court recently touched upon something which goes to the heart of what we all know and love about liberal democracy. The issue was around whether or not the Ten Commandments should be displayed inside a US courthouse.

Remembering H.M. Seervai (1906-1996)

Those who are familiar with the legal profession know that his 4 volume work on Constitutional Law is the finest work on the subject.

Judicial Murder of a Prime Minister

Bhutto was removed from the political scene of Pakistan to satisfy the power lust and perpetuate the rule of the vily military dictator General Zia Ul Haque

Jirga injustice

From an informal body meant to settle small claims, the ‘jirga’ in Pakistan has been allowed to emerge as a powerful extra-judicial force protecting the interests of the powerful.

Rape Of the Constitution

The very people who have sworn to protect the constitution have repeatedly raped it

LFO, Security Council and then Bijli Gaee...

One of the best things about living away from home is living away from home...

A New Constitution for Pakistan

Pakistan needs a workable and flexible document which is practical and can be sustained over a longer period of time.

General’s Dress Code Confusion

I maybe an inverted snob but am not so thick as not to understand what the General’s clothes are being set up to convey. If I am correct, it strikes me as a rather ill-founded strategy

New LFO Ultra

Whilst extending my heartfelt gratitude to His Highness (HH) General Pervez Musharraf for delivering the genuine democracy to this unfortunate nation of ours, I wholeheartedly condemn those traitors who refuse to tender unqualified submission to him.

The Follies of the Natives

A circus called Pakistan

On the Assertion of Rights

Why Pakistan’s institutions are ass backwards

When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History

The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States

Survival of the Fittest

If Pakistan is next then what are the options?

Loitering with Intent in Ayodhya

My basic contention is that Indian Muslims never had a claim to the Babri mosque...

Pakistan The Land of the pure - A Myth or Reality

Land of the Pure

Gujrat - The Verdict Of God

Excavating India

I say, thank god for Babar, for the dear departed Mughal badshah has revealed how the purring cats are jumping on a hot tin roof.

Muslims in India: Communalism vs. Backwardness-Minority Syndrome

Today, it is imperative that the Muslim community fights the ogre of communalism

The Urdu Press in New York

We never thought we would flee America

Towards Greater Tolerance

Anti-Pakistanism and neo-Indian Nationalism

A Work In Progress

Jinnah put Pakistan in such a location that the future state would always be involved in the geo-politics of world

If Army acts like a Political Party Why not a Forward Bloc in it?

what is a bigger and more deplorable sin: to be a prostitute or to be a pimp?

Games Generals Play

the General deserves to be applauded for forcing a semblance of democracy to the working of political parties

An All-Inclusive Rejoinder to All the Chronic Complainers

there are few nations on the face of earth blessed with such an omnipotent uniformed force

Lessons from Constitutional History

But we never seem to learn from history

Election in Pakistan

unprecedented election results in Pakistan

Democracy is Like Virginity

What I Saw In Okara

An investigation into the Okara land dispute

The Day Of All Days

Pakistan will re-take its first fledging steps towards democracy

India’s Potential Lose-Lose-Lose Scenario

India may actually be helping Pakistan in the long run, not harming it, with its current war hysteria

The Hindu Right

Advani’s yathra in an air-conditioned Toyota left a trail of blood in its wake

The Right To Bigotry

as long as government and courts and police and diplomats and moralists approve of it

Deja Vu

General Musharraf should be open and honest

The King’s Gambit: Chapter 3 (The Prostitute)

“Do you play chess, Mr. Prime Minister?”

An International Failure

do the Pakistanis know who they are themselves

Caught In Between

Pakistan is on the defensive almost constantly

Black Tuesday: The View From Islamabad

CNN and the US media have so far made little attempt to understand this affliction

A Medley of Internal Contradictions

Shedding tears for the plight of Indian Muslims is also a case of internal contradictions

Why Pakistan?

why should we persist in our self-flagellation?

The Chicken Hawks Of Pakistan

The military should accept the fact that it is a dictatorship

Democracy in Pakistan: The Missing Link?

Democracy has long been a buzzword in Pakistan

Should Pakistan Honor the Lahore Resolution?

why Pakistan failed to become a confederation in accordance with the spirit and content of the Lahore resolution?.

The Autonomy is for India

greater autonomy for states is the only way

1971 in 2000

... this singular event is consigned to the dustbin of history.

Lahore Notes, March 2000

I took the famous Bus to Lahore

Open Letter to General Musharraf

Field Marshal Ayub Khan was forced out of power after extensive rioting . . .

Talibanization or the Turkish Model?

My son is a U.S Citizen, and he is going to Afghanistan to join the Taliban.

Pakistan: A Failed State?

If Sethi’s diagnosis has some merit, Pakistan is a potentially failed state.

The Millenium Manifesto or ’Ikeesween Sadi Dastoor’

Kashmir does not belong to Pakistan regardless of historical events during partition...

Hegemony of the Ruling Elite in Pakistan

We have a chequered past in our experiments with democracy

Compilation of Opinions on the Military Takeover in Pakistan

Peoples opinions and reactions

Text of Speech by Gen. Pervez Musharraf

The choice before us on Oct 12th was between saving the body - that is the nation, at the cost of a limb - which is the Constitution, or saving the limb and losing the whole body

Compilation of Articles on the Military Takeover in Pakistan

Views and reviews on the recent events in Pakistan

An Open Letter to Gen. Pervaiz Musharaff

In your one action, you have violated and trashed the Constitution of Pakistan

Honour!

So let us rejoice

Falsehoods Galore

Pakistan has thus turned into an oligarchy well versed in the art of making things disappear

The Decline and Fall of Pakistan

Pakistan on the crossroads of a dilemma

Vajpayee Toppled

Next: Sonia Gandhi?

Need for a Confederation

India had never been a Nation, it is still not one

Jinnah, My Hero

Jinnah, the fragile man with an iron will.

Human Rights Groups Slam Sharif

Women are often the first victims of such moves

The Man Who Stooped to Conquer

And he did it all with a smile

Dow and NASDAQ set new records

A bull market that bears watching.

Pakistan in State of Emergency

President Tarar promulgates state of emergency in the country

Christians of Pakistan

The constitution defines Pakistan as an Islamic nation and guarantees freedom to all other religion. Are we doing justice in implementing this all important social tolerance act?

Calling a Spade a Spade

Thus a new historical precedent was established where 53% of the population were denounced as traitors

Gender and Literacy in Pakistan

By looking at agendas and practices of some organizations involved with women’s literacy in Pakistan this paper attempts to clarify ideas related to gender, assumed or consciously advocated in their various approaches.

Chowkwalas Interview Pak. Law Minister

Chowk readers conduct a cyber interview with Law Minister Khalid Anwer

Women’s Rights in Pakistan

... and by the time we are old enough to understand and question, the standards by which we judge have already been defined in our minds...

President Leghari Resigns, SC in conflict

When right is wrong and wrong is right then who can tell right from wrong?