As Reported by CNN Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani of Pakistan is due to appear Monday before the country’s Supreme Court, which plans to charge him with contempt in relation to a long-running struggle over old corruption cases. Gilani is locked in a standoff with the Supreme Court justices, who are demanding that he ask [...]

A couple of days ago the Lahore Bar Association managed todo what no other bar association has been able to do so far; they lowered theirbar. They decided to ban all products by a company called SHEZAN from beingserved at court premises because apparently according to them SHEZAN is Ahmadiowned. Now you would think that [...]

 Summary of media consumer activism in Pakistan from Citizens for Free and Responsible Media, Pakistan, Saturday February 4, 2012: We are a group of activists, academics, lawyers and journalists, citizens from all walks of life — essentially media consumers serving as an independent platform to voice public concern and through people powered reform, ensure that freedom [...]

PT Report Islamabad, January 28: Federal Interior Minister, Rehman Malik, has coined a new term “Gilgiti Group”, to describe alleged terrorists who gunned down several people, including three lawyers, the other day. The minister said that the so-called “Gilgiti Group Squad” has smuggled weapons to Karachi in oil tankers. He revealed that mother of one [...]

In the recent South Carolina GOP Presidential Primary, Fox News’s Brett Baier asked an extremely misleading question to Rick Perry about Turkey’s ‘Islamist oriented’ government, and what policies should the U.S. have towards it. This is how Baier started his question: “Since the Islamist oriented party took over in Turkey the murder rate of women [...]

A very intersting and comprehensive article by BBC Urdu’s Wussatullah Khan can be read in detail here. The author has tried to question the limit for the media – the so-called TV Channels. Accroding to him, television  is NOT doing any service for the society but instead is endangering the lives through its unthoughful and provocative programs (where [...]

Media in Pakistan got its long desired freedom in near past. We saw media excelling be it print or electronic; newspaper publishing houses went in to business of TV news channels with their long journalism experience. So far so good but in recent times we see an extra ordinary activism in this pillar of state [...]

Indian fishermen released from Pakistani prisons, waiting to go back Below, my article on the India-Pakistan prisoners issue published in Aman ki Asha on Jan 11, 2012, followed by a correction from Sen. Iqbal Haider and further clarification from B.M. Kutty. Also please do read Shivam Vij’s thought-provoking and thorough report ‘Why is Gopal Das free and [...]

By Alex Rodriguez for The Los Angeles Times Dealing a heavy blow to Pakistan’s embattled government, the Supreme Court on Monday initiated contempt proceedings against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for refusing to revive a long-standing corruption case against the nation’s president. Gilani, a top ally of President Asif Ali Zardari in the ruling Pakistan [...]

An international university with programs in management, social, computer and professional sciences recently defeated two unknown law colleges in the contest of faking it in court wits during a mock trial. As reported by the Express Tribune: “A moot court is a mock trial where the participants play the role of lawyers arguing points of [...]

By Kiran Nazish “Christian girl, 12, kidnapped, beaten and raped for eight months until she converted to Islam” said the headline of a report published in Daily Mail. This ofcourse happened in Pakistan, the publication ofcourse revealed an Islamic, radical, extremist & militant (yes, they multi-task) group member as culprit. In response, the non-militant, non-extremist, [...]

By Shahnaz Khan: The purpose of this article is to highlight the impact of the religious laws in Pakistan as they are being currently interpreted and implemented without going into the finer nuances of either the law or the religion. These laws come into limelight from time to time for brief periods only when a [...]

By Aisling Byrne Asia Times Online "War with Iran is already here," wrote a leading Israeli commentator recently, describing "the combination of covert warfare and international pressure" being applied to Iran. Although not mentioned, the "strategic prize" of the first stage of this war on Iran is Syria; the first campaign in a much wider [...]

Journalists are welcome to use this note, based on a statement made public on Jan 5, 2012.  Media note: Citizens express concern about Pakistan, safety of human rights defenders Jan 5, 2012 Prominent writers, doctors, intellectuals, lawyers from all over Pakistan and around the world have endorsed a statement expressing “grave concern” at the threats to “Pakistani [...]