Tag: Salman Akram Raja COLUMNS
Going all wrong (Part – I) – Salman Akram Raja
Coming at the heels of the Minar-e-Pakistan ‘incident’, the prime minister’s recent lament that English medium schools are creating a class of individuals disconnected...
Credibility and judicial appointments – Salman Akram Raja
In his article in these pages , ‘Seniority v merit: a false binary’ (Aug 5), friend and elegant thinker about law and life, Salahuddin...
Seniority and judicial appointments – Salman Akram Raja
The reservations expressed by the Sindh High Court Bar Association and, later, by the Supreme Court Bar Association about the intended elevation of a...
E-voting: fools rush in – Salman Akram Raja
In a rousing, if dramatic, moment in the justly celebrated documentary ‘The Ascent of Man’, the mathematician and historian – and all else in...
Maulana Wahiduddin: rethinking jihad – Salman Akram Raja
Maulana Wahiduddin Khan’s death in New Delhi last month at the age of 96 has resulted in a spate of commemorative articles in the...
Confronting the system – Salman Akram Raja
Judiciaries around the world are often seen as going through phases. Only occasionally are courts the site of resistance against the hegemonic forces dominating...
Rereading the constitution – Salman Akram Raja
Chief Justice Marshall’s reflection in ‘McCulloch v Maryland’ (1819), “it is a Constitution we are expounding” has travelled down the ages as a warning...
Politics as law – Salman Akram Raja
The essential facts relevant to the Broadsheet matter are by now firmly obscured by political spin and a seemingly endless societal need for scandal...
Child marriage and religious thought – Salman Akram Raja
The writer is an advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
Enactment and enforcement of legislation against child marriage has repeatedly run into resistance that...