Author Archives: Salman Akram Raja
2nd November, 2012
Courting history
A JUDGMENT based on a reading of history inevitably exposes the court to questions of selectivity and partiality. Such judgments are best avoided.
A JUDGMENT based on a reading of history inevitably exposes the court to questions of selectivity and partiality. Such judgments are best avoided.
31st October, 2012
Asghar Khan’s vigil
A FEW minutes before the Supreme Court reassembled to announce its short order in Asghar Khan’s case, Gen Durrani (retd), sitting next to me in the courtroom, muttered audibly, “I didn’t think I would end this way”. He looked ordinary and frail. Was he ever anything more? I wondered.
A FEW minutes before the Supreme Court reassembled to announce its short order in Asghar Khan’s case, Gen Durrani (retd), sitting next to me in the courtroom, muttered audibly, “I didn’t think I would end this way”. He looked ordinary and frail. Was he ever anything more? I wondered.
