Barrister Usman Ali

  FEDERAL Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s statement that “whether anyone accepts it or not, our system has collapsed or failed” cannot simply be dismissed as…

  INTERIOR Minister Mohsin Naqvi has revived a national debate over whether Pakistan needs more provinces. Speaking at the Pakistan Economic Summit in Islamabad on…

  THE Federal Constitutional Court’s recent decision to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling in the Monal restaurant case has reopened a question far more…

  THE Audio Leaks Commission was established to answer troubling questions about alleged interference in Pakistan’s judicial system. Instead, it became the centre of a…

ENVIRONMENTAL protection has become one of the most urgent responsibilities of modern states. The survival of the planet depends on the preservation of forests, wildlife,…

THE recent martyrdom of Maulana Muhammad Idrees Jan, a respected religious scholar, former member of the provincial assembly and Sheikh-ul-Hadith from Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has…

PAKISTAN has not faced terrorism only on battlefields, in border regions or at security checkpoints. It has seen it enter markets, places of worship, schools,…

  THE Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly has introduced the Vagrancy Act 2026, a tough law to curb begging by targeting professional beggars. For a government often…

  A nation is more than territory enclosed by borders on a map. It is history, memory, sacrifice, identity and a shared moral inheritance. For…

When international law appears to bend before the interests of powerful states, confidence in the global system of justice inevitably begins to weaken. Recent developments…