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Apropos: “‘Unfortunate incident’ in Bahawalnagar: Joint inquiry to be conducted: ISPR” Reference: https://www.brecorder.com/news/40298267/unfortunate-incident-in-bahawalnagar-joint-inquiry-to-be-conducted-ispr; https://www.independenturdu.com/node/165566 Bloody noses and solidarity may work fine in a game of boxing, they tend to go less well together in actual life. Although a statement from police on Musk’s X told spectators (sic) that an event in Bahawalnagar took place because…
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Hegel has said that it is to honor rationality of a human being that he is tried for his crimes. People no longer consider themselves subject to monarchy. Therefore, to honor their freedom, they must not submit themselves to presidents or any other authority for pardon, commutation of sentence, or reprieve. (For the time being,…
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See previous article: https://werticalhorizon.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/political-bargaining-at-the-expanse-of-a-letter-written-by-six-judges-of-islamabad-high-court/ Divide and Rule The Law Minister, citing a six-years-old case, claimed that cases of indiscretion on the part of Intelligence Community has also occurred previously yet in an attempt to further create wedge between the present Chief Justice of Pakistan and one immediately preceding him, summed up the matter, that the…
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Reference: Anarchy in Heaven (Section “Impersonality”); Impartiality and Determinist Law of Nature (“A Note on Impartiality”); Fraternity (Section, “Utilitarianism”); Rawls, Theory of Justice (revised edition), esp., section 9. The idea of nominating only such judges to the superior courts of law as could be reasonably considered impartial, as to carry out their duties even against…
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Apropos: https://www.brecorder.com/news/40282990/sc-upholds-pervez-musharrafs-death-sentence-in-treason-case Unreserved felicitation extended to the Chief Justice of Pakistan and the Supreme Court of Pakistan for upholding the special court’s decision in Treason Trial of one Pervez Musharraf – not that the judges of the Supreme Court need the felicitation from this scribe. The Lahore High Court bench that had previously declared un-Islamic…
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Apropos: https://www.brecorder.com/news/40281981/missing-persons-cases-sc-asks-probe-commission-to-file-report During the hearing, the Chief Justice of Pakistan told a plaintiff, whose husband is missing for about two decades, that I don’t see why this government or those in charge of various institutions would want to assume responsibility if someone else earlier had done something illegal. There is every reason that if they…
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I When I favorably quote a person, it is because that person’s words comport well with my a priori reflexions – unless it is a matter of mathematics or physical sciences. I do not favorably quote as a way of appeal to authority that goes: Since Mister Alpha Bravo Charlie had said that we must…
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Summary Addition Karma in another bottle: Impartial judges can only exist if there is an honest ruler. Honest ruler can only rule (for long enough) if there are honest subjects. There are times when Karma in another bottle indeed works – such as in sparsely populated Scandinavia – and hence, the Realist (more appropriately, the…
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خبر: صدر کسی سیاسی جماعت کے ترجمان نہ بنیں، وزیرِ اطلاعت [مرتضیٰ سولنگی۔][1] تبصرہ: اگلے روز، سینٹر رضا ربانی صاحب نے پارلیمانی زبان میں وزیرِ اطلاعات کو آئین کا سبق پڑھایا تھا[2] لیکن انھیں سمجھ نہیں آئی۔ اِس لئے اب غیرپارلیمانی زبان میں ان کو اوقات یاد دلانا پڑے گی۔ نگران سرکار کی خلائی مخلوق…