By Nighat Dad Published in DAWN on January 20, 2022 IN July 2021, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, while deciding Civil Petition No 4570/2019 (‘Nadia Naz vs President of Pakistan & Others’), acknowledged the flaws and limitations in the Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act, 2010, in great detail while penning that while the […]
Published in DAWN on January 24, 2022 Justice Ayesha Malik was sworn in as Pakistan’s first female Supreme Court judge on Monday, a landmark occasion in a country where activists say the law is often wielded against women. Justice Malik attended a ceremony in Islamabad where she now sits on the bench alongside 16 male colleagues at[…]
By Shahid Iqbal Published in DAWN on January 25, 2022 KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 9.75 per cent in its latest monetary policy and signalled that borrowing costs would remain steady for now, as recent tax increases were expected to curb demand and reduce the country’s budget[…]