by Jamal Shahid in Dawn, Oct 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary body on Friday was informed that 215 individuals had been arrested under blasphemy charges with the highest number of arrests made in Sindh, which was 78. A significant session of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights took place at the Parliament House, which was presided over by Senator Walid Iqbal. The committee addressed multiple pressing issues, including the blasphemous act in Jaranwala, which led…
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By Ansar Abbasi in The News, Sept 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: A public opinion survey done in July this year shows the highest approval rating of 88 percent for the military. The survey, done by Gallup for a political entity that commissioned it for its own assessments, also shows people’s trust in the media and courts with 56 percent approval rating for both. However, the approval ratings for politicians, in general, are 39 percent, parliament 47 percent,…
By Sohail Khan in The News,August 30, 2023ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Umer Ata Bandial Tuesday declared the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023 as a direct interference in the administrative affairs of the country’s highest court and observed the government itself had conceded that there were some defects in the law. A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Umer Ata Bandial, heard the petition of PTI Chairman Imran Khan,…
report in Prothom Alo, July 4, 2023As many as 119 journalists were harassed in different ways — being tortured, threatened and accused in cases — for playing their professional roles in the last six months of 2023 — between January and June; of them, the highest 29 in Dhaka followed by 8 in Chattogram and Cumilla each. Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) revealed these statistics on Monday in a six-month human rights report, prepared on…
by Rejaul Karim Byron in The Daily Star, Apr 16, 2023Bangladesh’s spending on subsidies and interest payments surged 45 per cent year-on-year in the first eight months of this fiscal year, turning out to be the highest in at least a decade. This resulted from an increased payment requirement from the coffer particularly to provide fertiliser, food and electricity at subsidised rates. From July to February in fiscal year 2022-23, the government spent Tk 56,222…
by Ayesha Ijaz Khan in Dawn, January 22nd, 2023The writer is a lawyer in London.Nearly every civilian prime minister in Pakistan has had to leave office prior to the expiration of his/her stated term. Just as the army’s blessings were crucial for the PMs to ascend to the highest civilian office, so too they have had to leave unceremoniously once they fell out with the establishment. The three-year itch is when things have historically gone…