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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Saad Rasool

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Saad Rasool is a lawyer based in Lahore. He has an LL.M. in Constitutional Law from Harvard Law School. He can be reached at saad@post.harvard.edu, or Twitter: @Ch_SaadRasool.

Governance challenges being faced by PTI

What could Imran Khan do, in the situation, to better address the governance crisis in Punjab? Manage Punjab’s governance through appointing bureaucracy of his choice—reporting directly to him. The last time such an attempt was made a handful of PTI parliamentarians.

What is Kashmir’s legal status under Modi...

The illegal annexation of Kashmir, into India’s Union territory, was done through a Presidential Order (CC.O. 272), which abrogated the Constitution of Jammu & Kashmir, and (in essence) repealed Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution of India.

The biggest challenge to National Security Policy

The real challenges, however, still lie ahead. The most important of which will be Pakistan’s resolve to implement what it has articulated in the NSP.

Understanding the Elections and Bar reform

As we embrace a new season of Bar elections, it is important to critically review our Bar culture and practices, in order to reform this ‘institution’ of advocacy. With a fierce belief that reform of the Bar is inextricably related to reforming the project of justice in Pakistan.

Can international ‘rules-based order’ survive?

What does America’s ignominious defeat in Afghanistan mean for the international “rules-based order”, which derives its legitimacy from American power?

Remembering the APS Peshawar attack

The fight against terrorism, thereon, for avenging the martyrdom of the innocent souls of APS Peshawar (and others like them), was fought at a human, cultural and ideological plain. The State of Pakistan has been at war with militancy since September 11, 2001.

Pakistan’s broken system: How can we fix...

A mere bus service, in this day and age, cannot be operated without the administrative ‘system’ getting in its way. The most deplorable manifestation of this ‘system’ is perhaps best glimpsed in our project for justice. Respectfully, that is. Just this week,

Pakistan and Bangladesh: Rethinking the paradigm

This journey of pain, unfortunately, started much before December of 1971. In fact, within just a few years of independence from the British Raj of India, the Bengali Language Movement started in 1952. Adding fuel to fire, the rise of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in West Pakistan