Saturday, July 28, 2012

Power of Judicial Review

First published in The Friday Times.

By Yasser Latif Hamdani

During his confirmation hearings, Judge John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States of America, famously admitted that he was aware of the fact that millions of people had elected the US Congress and not even one person had voted for the Supreme Court. More recently, in the now famous Obamacare judgment pronounced on June 28, Roberts declared that it was not the job of the Supreme Court to "protect people from their political choices". Such is the deference for the legislative branch of the government in the country that literally invented the doctrine of judicial review.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

LEGAL NOTICE to NABIHA MEHER SHAIKH, UROOJ ZIA AND AHMAD S YUSUF

14.07.2012
WITHOUT PREJUDICE

To:
1. Nabiha Meher Shaikh, ADDRESS DELETED
2. Ahmad Yusuf, ADDRESS DELETED
3. Urooj Zia, ADDRESS DELETED

BY COURIER, EMAIL, HAND AND PUBLICATION ON THE WEB

SUBJECT: LEGAL NOTICE

I act on my own behalf and address the following legal notice to you:
1. That you are continuously carrying out a malicious campaign of propaganda against me with mala fide intent claiming falsely and without cause that I incited three people i.e. Mr. Ali Azmat, ,Mr. Shemrez Nauman and Mr. Raza Ahmad (Rumi) to indulge in inappropriate and forcible sexual activity i.e. rape or collective zina-bil-jabr with one Nabiha Meher Shaikh. This terrible travesty of the truth has been perpetuated by your good selves through Twitter- a microblogging site-, via mass emails and orally. Evidence is attached herewith as Annex-A to this legal notice. The allegation is – needless to say - untrue and false and what is more that you are well aware that the allegation is entirely untrue.