Monthly Archives: January 2022

By Shahbaz Rana Published in The Express Tribune on January 26, 2022 ISLAMABAD: A new debt policy statement for the last fiscal year on Tuesday revealed that the federal government’s burden was Rs11.8 trillion higher than legally allowed limit set by parliament and that some targets fixed under the debt management strategy were also breached. The federal […]

By Nighat Dad Published in DAWN on January 20, 2022 IN July 2021, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, while deciding Civil Petition No 4570/2019 (‘Nadia Naz vs President of Pakistan & Others’), acknowledged the flaws and limitations in the Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act, 2010, in great detail while penning that while the[…]

Published in DAWN on January 24, 2022 Justice Ayesha Malik was sworn in as Pakistan’s first female Supreme Court judge on Monday, a landmark occasion in a country where activists say the law is often wielded against women. Justice Malik attended a ceremony in Islamabad where she now sits on the bench alongside 16 male colleagues at[…]