2011: Year of conflicts
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq2011 is about to end leaving behind many sordid memories, troubles and challenges—imperialist highhandedness evoking Occupying Wall Street Movement, political upheavals, armed conflicts, economic collapses and slowdowns, rising poverty and unemployment, social distresses and above…
Year 2008: Lethal weapon of cross-border terrorism
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq2008 has ended leaving behind many troubles and challenges—economic slowdowns, financial crises, rising unemployment, social distresses, regional armed conflicts and above all rapidly rising tide of cross-border terrorism. At the fag end of the year,…
2005: Year of legal shenanigans
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqLegal historians in Pakistan are bewildered as day by day the society is wrangling with legal shenanigans starting from serious constitutional issues to enforcing ban of kite flying and meals on wedding parties. In a…
150 years of Lahore High Court
Dr. Ikramul Haq“The purpose of celebrating 150th anniversary is that we want to make people aware that the judiciary is active to protect their rights and that positive reforms are being introduced in the system”—Chief Justice of Lahore High CourtIt…
100-day tax reforms agenda
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqThe administrative burden of tax compliance is hardest in Pakistan where firms have to make 47 payments and spend 594 hours (or 74 man days per year) dealing with tax regulations versus 12 payments and…
Platinum jubilee of Tax Tribunal
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq“….the raison d’être of establishing special tribunals has been to dispense better quality of justice where people, better trained in particular fields and disciplines could provide quality decisions and resolution of disputes…. Appointing members to…
71 tumultuous years
Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqTumultuous existence of 71 years of our nationhood has witnessed many upheavals— a journey from crisis to crisis has at its core the struggle for establishing a true democratic polity and a welfare state. The…
60 years of Judiciary
From endorsement to denialHuzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul HaqIn the last 60 years of its existence, the State of Pakistan has faced a daunting challenge of establishing true democratic polity based on constitutional supremacy. The long military rules and in…
17th anniversary of 9/11
Reality behind ‘war on terror’Huzaima Bukhari & Dr. Ikramul Haq On September 9, 2001, seventeen years ago, a gruesome and heinous crime against humanity was committed in New York—wanton attack on twin towers of World Trade Centre that symbolized the financial…