Ahmer Jamil Khan

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  • Abuse of Accountability Law to curb Freedom of the Press

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    Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, the chief editor of Jang Group of Newspapers was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau even before the opening of an investigation into an offence that allegedly took place more than three decades ago. This could not be a more blatant attack on the Freedom of the Press in violation of not just…

  • Talk on Law Making in Pakistan

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    On 17th February 2020, I was invited by Prof. Severine Minot to give a talk on Law Making in Pakistan at Habib University. My talk was guided by the presentation below. It started with the classical question of what law is, and went on to discuss classical tripartite structure of the state: the Legislature, the…

  • Travesty of Democracy

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    Pakistan held its general elections in 2018, to select its third successive democratic government, after almost a decade of military dictatorship under the Musharraf era. Putting Things in Perspective Before the 2018 polls, when the PML-N was in power, the PTI protested: it alleged poll rigging and election engineering. The 2018 polls brought the PTI,…

  • A Positivist Constitution?

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    Is the Constitution of Pakistan Positivist in nature, or is it Naturalistic? It is easy to say it is Naturalistic right off the bat: the Constitution begins by vesting the sovereignty of not just this country, but that of the entire universe in Allah. The first sentence of the Preamble to the Pakistani Constitution reads:…

  • Is an Immoral Law a Good Law?

    Is an Immoral Law a Good Law?

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    Is an Immoral Law a Good Law? The question may be a misleading one; to clear this, I will not look into what the words moral (or immoral) or good might mean in this context, I would rather define them just as we begin. Moral, in this context would be concerned with the principles of…

  • Does Right to Life include a Right to End Life?

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    As part of my LLB, I wrote a research essay on Suicide and Assisted Suicide. The research essay was titled “Does Right to Life include a Right to End Life? Legal challenges to suicide and assisted suicide.” In the essay I explored the Right to Life, protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and…

  • Will be Back, Soon!

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    I have been away from blogging for quite some time. A long time really. Here’s why. My draft section is piling up. I usually begin writing, then leave it incomplete, saved as a draft, and, since I blog about current/political issues, it becomes irrelevant over time. I haven’t neglected this blog entirely. I’ve been updating the…

  • Shutdown to Rebuild, Wait, What?!

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    Shutdown to Rebuild, Wait, What?!? Seriously? What  were the PTI’s creative team thinking when they came up with this slogan? On second thought, this might be perhaps the most clever way to present something that the party plans to do which happens to be so inherently outrageous and morally and legally unacceptable that the party…

  • In Memory of the Slain

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    At SZABIST, the students held a candlelight vigil in memory of those slain in the name of blasphemy. Over the last month a Christian couple in the town of Kot Radha Kishan, some 60 kilometers southwest of Lahore were beaten and burnt to death after they were accused of blasphemy by their creditor, which was…

  • I’m Twenty!

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    Yep, that’s right! I’m twenty. Another year gone by; a remarkable, happening year! So much happened in this one year, so many new experiences, so many lessons learned. I won’t write much because, well, its my Birthday! So, before anyone else, I’d wish myself: Happy Birthday to Me! 🙂 Now, a song for me, for today! 😀