The Supreme Court is being destroyed and replaced by a brand-new, even-more-supreme court, just one that’s junior to the PM. Piece today, on the 'amendment' that marks the final wrecking ball to judicial independence. dawn.com/news/1859875

In removing J. Munib Akhtar from the Committee, the CJP has struck two of his own ‘principles’ with one stroke. He’s validated needless legislation through ordinances while forgetting all he wrote about curtailing the powers of the CJ. Hard to even feign disappointment anymore.

This paragraph is no less significant. It is a good reminder that, in upholding the Practice and Procedure Act, the SC didn’t hand over to Parliament an unrestricted right to interfere in its working. Limiting one man’s discretion was, and remains, a good thing.

Where does this idea of a Constitutional Court come from? Is it even a workable idea in our legal system? Or will actually make all our judicial problems, from delays to excessive politicisation, even worse? I discuss all this in an article for The News. thenews.com.pk/print/1235137-…

so I wrote a novel, comes out next year

Yes. Enforced disappearances, internment centres, civilian trials in military courts: all bad. But what does have to do with supporting the FCC? Respectfully, if you have to use your position on other things as a crutch, then that’s a sign that it’s probably just a bad idea.

From the Charter of Democracy, to Jinnah, and now Dorab Patel, we’re one step away from a sermon on Muhammad Bin Qasim’s vision for a federal constitutional court. Perhaps you could also cite sources that insisted that the promised court be created before 25th October, 2024?

For all the importance we may give ourselves as an audience, we weren't even really meant to be watching. It was only when dawn revealed the foul fumes of failure that We The People had to be ‘consulted’ on a draft that we hadn’t fully seen Salaar Khan thenews.com.pk/print/1240843-…

Fitting that this piece makes print as it becomes clear that this amendment is to pass at all costs -even if it means abducting parliamentarians’ wives. I argue here that, even as a passive audience, the least we deserve is a half-believable script: thenews.com.pk/print/1240843-…

A stolen election, a hollowed judiciary, sham trials, abductions and now a willingness to point the gun at their own people. But slack-jawed hybrid puppets-speaking through illegal VPNs-care only that those with the courage to resist didn't knock before walking through the door.

They know no language other than violence, and they speak it only to their own people. The capital may have been cleared out, but a siege on the country continues. And conscripted clowns triumphantly rattle their own chains to celebrate.

They can charge Matiullah Jan with whatever they like, but he recorded his crimes himself: As the state shot at its own people under the cover of night, Mati peeled back the darkness to expose its crimes.

So many tut-tutting that even one death is inexcusable, while also working overtime to claim a death toll as low as possible. They openly issued orders to shoot-on-sight, and did. Your desire to win this inane argument is only aiding the cover-up. Focus on what matters.