Adil Najam Also see updated discussion and debate here and here. Hasba Bill discussion here. Although it still needs to be approved by the Senate to become law, the passage of the Protection of Women Rights Bill by the National Assembly in Pakistan is a surprise and a milestone; even if it is one that […]
Adil Najam The above headline is taken verbatim from a story in Dawn (15 November, 2006) because, frankly, I cannot improve upon it. (BTW, no, this is not a Halloween story… this story is much scarier!). The story is indeed a ‘fantastic’ one and Dawn claims to have relevant documents to prove its claims. Here […]
Bilal Zuberi How dispossessed must all the newspaper-reading, not-so-upper class, citizens of Pakistan must feel when they read about the recent allocation of dozens of expensive plots of land to federal secretaries and other bureaucrats? There are families who work tirelessley for years, just to own their own Bhains, their own supari shop, and their […]
