Pakistan, April 12 -- In April 2025, the Supreme Court of Pakistan delivered a ruling that may well define our legal generation. In a landmark judgment authored by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and joined by Justice Aqeel Ahmed Abbasi, the Court called for comprehensive, constitutional, and carefully bounded guidelines for the use of Artificial Intelligence in Pakistan's judicial system.

It was more than a legal pronouncement-it was an invitation. An invitation to innovate, responsibly. To reform, without compromising integrity. And to modernize the courts, while keeping the soul of justice intact.

As someone who has spent the last several years at the frontier of legal AI in Pakistan-building tools, training systems, educating the prof...