Ashfaq Khan Law Associates, Islamabad, Pakistan

11/12/2017

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/254513-is-the-party-over

When the Pakistan People’s Party was founded fifty years ago, Asif Ali Zardari was twelve years old. When Asif Zardari married Benazir Bhutto in 1987, the PPP was 20 years old and Zardari was 32....

15/11/2017

https://www.dawn.com/news/1370547/the-capital-under-siege

Why are those who preach hate allowed to participate in electoral politics?

14/11/2017

https://www.dawn.com/news/1370083/reasons-why-pakistan-loses-international-arbitration

Pakistan has been unable to develop its own specialised pool of experts in arbitration and contract writing despite.

03/11/2017

https://www.dawn.com/news/1367888/what-should-medical-ethics-be-in-the-pakistani-context

Physicians in Pakistan are either not trained in bioethics, or consider it superfluous while practicing medicine.

26/10/2017

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/239796-A-new-district-in-Swat

The Swat Valley in northern Pakistan is usually referred to as the Switzerland of Asia but a learned friend, who paid a visit to Swat recently, put it thus: “Switzerland is [the] Swat of...

26/10/2017

https://www.dawn.com/news/1366336/after-the-rai-law

This law has great potential to ensure transparent functioning.

26/08/2017

https://www.thenews.com.pk/amp/226101-Legal-eye-Minds-wide-shut

There is no justification for what lawyers did in Lahore this week. There are no principles at play here. It is hooliganism in stark form. We’ll get to the question of how we got here in a minute, which is where both bar and bench are at fault. But on this incident in isolation there are no two side...

07/08/2017

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/221853-A-family-of-thieves

I belong to a distinguished, educated family. Unfortunately, it happens to be a family of thieves – a mafia. It is a family that is multiplying fast and growing in power and influence and, I...

07/08/2017

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/221852-She-is-lying

17/07/2017

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/216900-Shooting-a-prime-minister

In colonial Burma, an elephant underwent a short bout of madness, what we call mast in South Asia – it is the same word we find in Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s qawali ‘mast...

17/07/2017

https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/216900-Shooting-a-prime-minister

17/07/2017

https://www.dawn.com/news/1345741

The concessions showered on the Chinese have surely set a benchmark other investors could demand.