The cancellations of the tours of the New Zealand and the England cricket teams are not issues of security but of Pakistan’s failure at the diplomatic front. It seems that India has won this.
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COURTS have come to occupy a distinctively unique place in modern states given their multifarious but quintessential roles not only in the development of jurisprudence and adjudication of disputes but also in determining the questions that have a considerable bearing on such diverse areas as fundamental rights, economic efficiency, environmental protection, treaty enforcement, electoral transparency, and in extreme cases, even resolution of political disputes. Hence, the selection of the superior judiciary has become an arduous if not a highly contentious issue, involving competence, integrity, belief, affiliation, background, etc.
Incidentally, our judiciary is also in the eye of a ‘storm’ generated by the recent elevation of Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar as a judge of the Supreme Court. Otherwise, a highly competent and popular judge of the Sindh High Court, he is junior to four judges, including the chief justice who happens to be the se
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Pays neuf, le Pakistan n’en est pas moins l’héritier d’une civilisation multiséculaire. On pense aux vestiges de Mohenjo-Daro, au site gréco-bouddhique de Taxila, à la magnificence des jardins de Shalimar ou encore à celle des palais de Lahore.
Au lendemain de sa séparation avec l’Inde, en 1947, le Pakistan devint l’un des postes les plus avancés de la guerre froide, « a front country » comme Le Pentagone le qualifiait alors. Ligne de fracture, lieu d’affrontement idéologique privilégié entre les puissances du « Grand Jeu », le Pakistan n’a trouvé aucun bénéfice à la fin de l’affrontement entre Soviétiques et Américains. Au contraire, il s’est enfoncé chaque année un peu plus dans les dissensions internes et les rivalités ethniques, bien que sa situation géographique continue à le placer aux avant-postes des convoitises entre puissances rivales.