Having to form benches through committee ensures discussion & consensus & thwarts CJPs from handpicking arbitrarily. Interestingly, if bench of only 7-senior most judges (QFI, Shah, Munib,Yahya, Mandokhail, Amin, Mazhar JJ) was formed, decision would have been 4-3 the other way

After 3-weeks of pure vacation, read a very interesting book! The Code of Capital: How Law Creates Wealth & Inequality by Katharina Pistor. Upturns whole debate abt deregulation of “free markets” & points out how State, laws (& legal instruments) form very basis of capital(ism)

Who are Indians descended from? Aryans from Europe? Dravidians who've been "here" forever? The Indus valley civilization? A controversial question for 150+ years, but now we have DNA evidence that answers these questions with a high degree of certainty. 🧵

Of all the hare-brained hybrid schemes, this one must take the cake. The regime seems determined to keep giving adrenaline shots to the PTI.

On the other hand, Bhutto banned NAP and got it approved by SC. He was not a dictator and he succeeded. Or did he? This would be a foolish, foolish overreaction by the PML-N government. Or any political government.

Should this be legal?

What a depraved society and its representatives. Israeli coalition members themselves tearing off the mask they have been using to hide their disgusting ugly reality.

Cycled through many emotions while reading this: rage, gratitude for escaping and also respect and gratitude for Ahmad Noorani’s amazing work. factfocus.com/justice/3784/

This is how Pakistan is run. Based on the announced Federal Budget 2024-25. Imagine this was the budget of your household. What might you change? Where would your priority for reform lie? It's not rocket science. It's not even economics!

Utterly disgraceful for SCBA to take the position that Ahmadis must not be allowed to profess or preach their religion even inside their own homes or places of worship.

Another way, which should be more publicized, in which the US assists the IDF: their tech giants - Google, Amazon, etc. - provide scores of services, from cloud storage to AI, to help kill Palestinians. Remember Google's "don't be evil"? 🤔 972mag.com/cloud-israeli-…

“It’s a pity the country has forgotten about the Babara massacre of August 12, 1948. The slaughter of more than 600 peaceful protesters in Babara, a village near Charsadda, remains one of the biggest civilian killing events in a single day, at the hands of Police and the Frontier

Enjoyed this talk by my surkha professor sister, ⁦Sanaa Ahmed⁩ about selective construction & application of law to promote the interests of power/wealth. youtu.be/u5Drbh24_gw

Over the past week, the University of Karachi has faced an unusual level of external pressure. The Senate meeting was postponed at the last moment on the orders of the Secretary of Boards (in reality, the Chief Minister). Today, a 40-year-old. 1/3 Abdul Moiz Jaferii Salahuddin Ahmed

The Syndicate is authorized to form a Unfair Means Committee as per Breach of Examination Rules listed on page 431 of KU Code. Instead, in the case of Justice Tariq Mehmood Jehangiri his case was not mentioned on Syndicate agenda and kept secret until Syndicate 1/n