If you have a few hrs, watch these highlights of the chennai test from 99. Very detailed, good quality, this is what highlights should be like...not cut everything down to 15 minutes. Just sitting through the chennai drama again and reliving the memories youtu.be/QNXK-6X4ZbI?si…

From ⁦Lydia Polgreen⁩’s excellent New York Times Opinion column: »Mangi would make history as the first Muslim American federal appellate judge. Republicans are grasping at straws to block him. Why on earth would Democrats hand them a rope?« nytimes.com/2024/04/05/opi…

Talking to one of the finest legal minds I know on AI use cases in the Justice system. Those who have interned here will recognise this pic

An article by Feisal H. Naqvi from 2013 but well worth a re-read. Pakistan’s propensity to cut off its nose to spite its face remains potent!

The bench had taken up a petition filed by the Public Interest Law Association of Pakistan through Advocate Syed Faisal Hussain Naqvi, which had highlighted the existential threat that climate change poses to the country. dawn.com/news/1832748

Really proud of folks at my fav law firm BNR. They filed a public interest petition to the Supreme Court arguing that climate change is a serious existential threat to people of Pakistan & while climate act passed 7 years ago, neither authority nor fund has been established so

Want to known the true history of #heeramandi of #Lahore? Listen in as historians tell it with primary sources. And it’s not what you think! youtu.be/9Xfa5RUsegE?si…

Exactily 1 yr n a day from now I wrote this🧵on Int'l Arb. Since then,the ALRC headed by Justice Mansoor A. Shah, co-opted me as member n drafted the Arbtration Bill 2024 led by Feisal H. Naqvi (who tolerated me during the drafting process). We discuss the Bill: shorturl.at/dWAmj

Very very happy to report that the Federal Cabinet has today granted approval in principle to the draft Arbitration Act, 2024. The next step now will be for the Provincial Assemblies to pass resolutions authorising Parliament to enact the law.

In a typical domestic bill, government adds 24% taxes to the electricity bill. It adds 37% taxes to commercial bills and 27% taxes to industrial bills. Here is a way to immediately reduce electricity bills substantially for all consumers. The government imposes these four

My previous post was about all the amazing desi food joints in Lahore. This one is an annotated Google Maps list of all the *non-desi* restaurants that offer awesome, palate-pleasing, culinary experiences in Lahore. Hope it keeps you busy for a while! maps.app.goo.gl/yt8dPwSLiwZdhy…

My latest book, New World Empires: Cultures of Power & Governance in the Americas, is now available! Get the ebook for yourself or ask your university/ library to get the print edition from Routledge. South Asian readers will soon have local editions. 😁 taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.…

Lahore's favourite festival coming to you once again, live and unfiltered. Pls do join

Professor Mahmood #Mamdani will also join us in person at #thinkfest2025. A renowned scholar at Columbia University he will speak on conflicts in the #MiddleEast and his latest book “Neither Settler nor Native: The Making of Permanent Minorities” join us!

The programme is out!! 2 full days of #thinkfest2025. Come, think, question!! Program link: afkaretazathinkfest.com/wp-content/upl…

A very timely piece by the brilliant EH for MENA UNCENSORED on Gaza's ceasefire, Eretz Ysrael and the significance of Palestinian State... Will the world finally wake up and understand the scale of the bloodbath that Netanyahu & the zionists have dragged it into?

ThinkFest in Lahore is held each year and it’s a really great opportunity to hear about some of the newest, important books coming out and from scholars on pertinent issues today. So glad I got to chair Arsalan Khan’s book launch! 5/7

اسلام آباد ہائی کورٹ جرنلسٹس ایسوسی ایشن کے وکیل Mian Sami ud-Din میاں سمیع الدین کی میڈیا سے گفتگو،یہ ترمیم ایک نئی سوشل میڈیا ریگولیٹری اتھارٹی کو اختیارات دیتی ہے وہ اپنی مرضی سے انفارمیشن کو فیک ڈیکلیئر کرے، آزادی اظہار رائے کے بلکل خلاف ہے ، چیف جسٹس صاحب نے کہا کہ جسٹس راجہ

Mother's Day Special with my Mama 🥰 youtu.be/Q4_iMitr_II?si…

It’s been over 48 hours and having the most horrific travel experience with Qatar Airways and their partner Alaska Airlines. Would strongly caution against using these airlines when there is a code share situation and ticket issued by one airline and flight operated by other.