The writer is a lawyer and an academic.
COURTS have come to occupy a distinctively unique place in modern states given their multifarious but quintessential roles not only in the development of jurisprudence and adjudication of disputes but also in determining the questions that have a considerable bearing on such diverse areas as fundamental rights, economic efficiency, environmental protection, treaty enforcement, electoral transparency, and in extreme cases, even resolution of political disputes. Hence, the selection of the superior judiciary has become an arduous if not a highly contentious issue, involving competence, integrity, belief, affiliation, background, etc.
Incidentally, our judiciary is also in the eye of a ‘storm’ generated by the recent elevation of Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar as a judge of the Supreme Court. Otherwise, a highly competent and popular judge of the Sindh High Court, he is junior to four judges, including the chief justice who happens to be the se
Can the courts save a constitutional democracy?
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جسٹس منیر: پاکستان کے ایک لائق مگر متنازع چیف جسٹس
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سعادت حسن منٹو: ٹھنڈا گوشت، وہ افسانہ جو منٹو کے لیے بہت گرم ثابت ہوا
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