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Asad Rahim Khan

Asad Rahim Khan

The Express Tribune

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At history’s edge

Perhaps, the nature of history itself has changed.

03.03.2026 90

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Asad Rahim Khan

(Un)constitutional amendments: Why the 27th could mean the death of justice

06.11.2025 60

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Reserved seats case: Why the Constitutional Bench’s verdict undermines the very essence of democracy

The constitutional bench has authored one of the worst and unwittingly comical decisions in our legal history.

04.10.2025 20

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Power to the people strongest: 70 years ago, the apex court sealed Pakistan’s fate. Its effects still echo today

When Justice Munir denied the existence of the assembly’s sovereignty, he destroyed the country’s existing constitutional basis. Sovereign power...

22.09.2025 20

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If the Quaid came home

If indeed the Quaid came home, he’d have found freedom in recession. We know this not from speculation, but from decades of documentary record.

14.08.2025 50

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How the SC Constitutional Bench handed two-thirds majority to an unelected ‘unity’ regime

After this latest verdict, the Constitutional Bench has served that Constitution on a platter to the rejected parties: they can now reshape our legal...

30.06.2025 60

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Among the Quaid’s men — Mahmud Husain and the Pakistan that could have been

His brother became India’s first Muslim president. Mahmud Husain chose Pakistan. The rest, as they say, is history.

27.05.2025 20

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Braving dissent

Standing alone is still better than surrendering together.

18.05.2025 150

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Why Modi keeps pushing India to the brink of war with Pakistan

The lesson of Modi’s entire public life has been that playing with fire benefits his politics — from the inferno of Gujarat in 2002 to Muslim...

10.05.2025 40

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Catch-26

The result is the greatest judicial regression in 30 years.

05.03.2025 100

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Asad Rahim Khan