Pandora's Box
Pakistan, May 2 -- We may have seen public displays of the judiciary split down the middle before but the stakes have never been this high. As the honourable higher judiciary finds itself standing at a crossroads, there's no telling what the pandora's box will reveal next. A month after a letter from six Islamabad judges addressed to the Supreme Judicial Council opened a can of coercion worms, pointing to the menace of "engineer(ed) judicial outcomes in politically consequential matters," more and more courts are becoming a part of the debate. As some of his brothers-in-robes become more vocal, posing challenging questions, the Chief Justice of Pakistan appears to be trudging through a quandary, indeed; reluctant to delve deeper into the ...
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