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Pakistan's Federal Constitutional Court: A Reform Shaping Power, Not Democracy

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- The recent establishment of a Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) in Pakistan marks a profound institutional shift within the country's constitutional architecture. It is being pre... Read More


Bangladesh Court Sentences Former PM Sheikh Hasina To Death Over Student Crackdown

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of orchestrating a deadly crackdown on a ... Read More


The 18th, 26th, And Then 27th Amendment: How Pakistan's Democracy Is Being Rewritten

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- Constitutions are drafted to protect a nation's foundational principles, not to weaken or distort them. When Pakistan's framers sat down in 1973 to write a new social contract for... Read More


Ghosts Of Empire: The Roots Of The Durand Faultline - Part 4

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- India funded a range of small-scale development projects in Afghanistan. These are in almost all provinces of Afghanistan; the projects are high-impact, low-cost, and concentrated... Read More


Extra-Judicial Killings In Pakistan: Violations Of Rights And Rule Of Law

Pakistan, Nov. 17 -- In a powerful dissenting note in the case concerning the killing of Mohammad Hayat Mirza, Justice Athar Minallah described extra-judicial killings, custodial torture, and the exce... Read More


More Than Malicious Gossip: Remembering Khushwant Singh

Pakistan, Nov. 13 -- It's nothing short of a blessing to get one's hands on any book of Khushwant Singh, the most celebrated and widely read South Asian writer. Born in 1915 in what is now Pakistan, h... Read More


Pakistan Warns Afghan Taliban: Support For TTP And BLA Threatens Regional Security

Pakistan, Nov. 12 -- After a month of stalled negotiations between the Afghan Taliban and Pakistan, tensions have reached a breaking point. Islamabad has warned the Afghan Taliban that if they continu... Read More


The Constitution Under Siege?

Pakistan, Nov. 12 -- These constitutional amendments have nothing to do with the life of the common man who has been struggling from dawn to dusk to make both ends meet in this backbreaking inflation.... Read More


Islamabad Suicide Blast Claimed By Jamaat Ul Ahrar, TTP Breakaway Militant Faction

Pakistan, Nov. 12 -- A suicide bomb attack outside the district judicial complex in G 11/4, Islamabad, on 11 November 2025 killed 12 people and wounded 36 others, according to police and hospital sour... Read More


The 27th Amendment: Power Shifts From The Supreme Court To The Prime Minister

Pakistan, Nov. 12 -- For most of Pakistan's history, the Supreme Court has not been a check on power; it has been an instrument of it. Every decisive turn in the country's political coup, dismissal, a... Read More