Articles

June 19, 2017

Is the UK safeguarding rights of vulnerable witnesses whilst balancing the need for fair trial?

Justice depends on the public having trust in the legal system which relies upon victims and witnesses of crime coming forward to report an incident, to […]
May 31, 2017

The Federal Shariat Court-An Obsolete Institution?

The Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan (established by the President’s Order No.1 of 1980 as incorporated in the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 under chapter 3A) is […]
March 29, 2017

MISSING PERSONS: A CONTINUING PROBLEM IN PAKISTAN

 “Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon” – […]
March 21, 2017

Does Islamic Law prescribe death penalty for an act of Apostasy?

Apostasy (Irtidad) literally means to ‘backslide.’ In Islamic terminology it is ‘turning away from Islam’ or ‘severing the ties with Islam.’ In Quran one of the […]
March 21, 2017

Pakistan a cul-de-sac for christians

The indelible stigma and shame of Shanti Nagar 1997, Sangla Hill 2005, Gojra 2009 and Badami Bagh Lahore 2013 had not yet abated and the wounds […]
January 1, 2017

Can the Gaza War of 2008 be justified under the doctrine of self defense?

Codenamed ‘Operation Cast Lead’ (OCL), the 22-day Israeli offensive on Gaza began on 27th December 2008. Around 1400 Palestinians including some 300 children died while thirteen […]