The Bedouin Bluff

Imran Khan’s wilting under Saudi pressure to absent himself from an important conference in Malaysia, was unwise. But if he was now having second thoughts and actually pulled-off an about-turn, he would not only get back to the right side of geography, the mother of history, but would also be calling the Bedouin Bluff.
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Law of The Jungle

The Lawyers Movement kicked-off in 2007 was essentially for the primacy of law. Churchill, “are the courts functioning”; and Ali, the fourth of the Righteous Caliphs, “a system based on injustice could not survive”, were so often quoted that one started to suspect that we were on a holy mission. When it was accomplished, the restored Chief Justice, Iftikhar Chaudhray, not only went all guns blazing against the judiciary, but also violated some basic tenets of the Constitution. His unholy mission was furthered by another heady judge, Saqib Nisar, who even had some iconic figures of the struggle groveling before him in the Supreme Court.
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