Abu Bakar Khan is a lawyer and a JURIST correspondent based in Lahore, Pakistan. On August 31, 2026, the Court of Arbitration—a treaty-established tribunal, distinct from the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, which administers its proceedings—issued two unanimous rulings with immediate consequences for India and Pakistan. The first held that India’s April [...]
Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and a lawyer based in Pakistan. On November 13, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan completed a legislative journey that lasted less than a week. Introduced in the Senate on November 10 and approved the same day, the amendment passed through the National Assembly with [...]
Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and lawyer based in Pakistan. Pakistan’s information and freedom of speech landscape has steadily narrowed over the past several years as the state began systematically removing independent voices from television channels and newspaper columns. In response, many journalists turned to digital platforms—primarily YouTube—to continue reporting on [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a recent law graduate of the University Law College, University of the Punjab, and is currently practicing in the courts of Pakistan. A tragic militant attack in the Baisaran Valley near [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a recent law graduate of the University Law College, University of the Punjab, and is currently practicing in the courts of Pakistan. As these lines are being written, the parliamentary committee [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a recent law graduate of the University Law College, University of the Punjab, and is currently practicing in the courts of Pakistan. On Thursday the Supreme Court of Pakistan overturned its [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a final year law student at University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this dispatch from Lahore. All eyes are now fixed on the Supreme Court of Pakistan to [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a final year law student at University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this dispatch from Lahore. Lahore hosted the 5th Asma Jahangir Conference, titled ‘People’s Mandate: Safeguarding Civil [...]
