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Pakistan & South Asia
File 01The Verification Question
July 24, 2026
A precision-guided bomb does not miss by accident. It goes exactly where it is aimed. On 16 March, Pakistan aimed one at a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul — at 9pm, mid-prayer, with more than a thousand patients inside. At least 269 people died, UNAMA confirms.
Rule of Law
File 02The Paper Trail Behind the Court That Will Hear Imran Khan's Final NAB Appeal
July 14, 2026
SubstackJusticara Evidence-led analysis on governance, rights, law, and public accountability — from Justicara founder Humaira Wajahat. Forum Engineering The Paper Trail Behind the Court That Will Hear Imran Khan's Final NAB Appeal The 2026 NAB amendment did not change the offence, the evidence, or the sentence. It changed which court gets the last word. The documents show, step by step, how that court was built, who selected its judges — and what was still being contested in filings as recently as yesterday. Justicara Investigations · 14 July 2026 · Evidence over outrage. October 2024. November…
Pakistan & South Asia
File 031,000+ Days: UN Warns on Imran Khan’s Detention Conditions and Pakistan’s Rule of Law
July 10, 2026
SubstackPhoto: Imran Khan / Wikimedia Commons, Creative Commons licence. Imran Khan has now spent more than 1,000 days in prison. A UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has warned that his reported solitary confinement and detention conditions may amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. This is not a PTI claim. It is a formal UN human rights warning. If Pakistan’s institutions can subject a former prime minister to these conditions in full public view, what protection remains for any other citizen? Source: UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 12 Dec. 2025 Since…
Pakistan & South Asia
File 04Pakistan’s Floods Are Predictable. So Is the State Failure.
July 6, 2026
SubstackEvery monsoon, Pakistan is warned. The alerts come before the images: heavy rain, flash floods, rising rivers, landslides, and vulnerable districts. Then the familiar footage returns: collapsed homes, flooded villages, rescue boats, ration bags, press briefings, and grieving families. The country calls it a tragedy. The state calls it relief work. Many people call it fate. But the rain is not the whole story. The scale of suffering is shaped by public choices. When warnings exist, when flood-prone areas are already known, when drains remain blocked, when embankments are weak, when unsafe…
Pakistan & South Asia
File 05What history actually shows about toppling military rule — and what PTI is getting wrong
June 27, 2026
SubstackAleema Khan posted something last night that stopped me scrolling. "Pakistanis will have to come out like Kashmiris," she wrote. "Without resistance, Imran Khan's release is impossible." I understand the frustration behind those words. I feel it too. But I think the strategy embedded in them is wrong — and getting it wrong at this moment, when talks are live and the movement is at a crossroads, could cost Pakistan dearly. This isn't a criticism of Imran Khan's sister. It's a harder question: what actually works when a military has constitutionally entrenched itself? The evidence is…
Rule of Law
File 06Why Rule of Law Matters — Even for One Man in Prison
June 27, 2026
SubstackJusticara Subscribe Sign in Why Rule of Law Matters — Even for One Man in Prison When courts are defied, democracy dies. Humaira Wajahat Jun 27, 2026 Share When a Supreme Court orders family visits for a prisoner and the order is ignored. When a UN expert flags inhumane conditions and nothing changes. When courts are defied in plain sight and nobody flinches. That's not a prisoner's problem. That's a country's problem. --- Any deal that frees a man but not the system has freed no one. That's the principle underneath everything I write here. --- This is a weekly column on rule of law,…
