Iftikhar Choudharys Judicial Activism and the Pakistani state: Time for a rethink?
While Choudhary’s judicial activism did restore a degree of sanity to Pakistan, it came at the expense of other institutions and created an imbalance of power. Pakistan, to become a normal state, at peace with itself and the world at large, may not need institutional tinkering but a wholesale rejigging of its institutional superstructure and substructure.
- Published: December 18, 2013
