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In a First for Pakistan, a Woman Is Cleared to Become a Supreme Court Justice
Justice Ayesha A. Malik’s nomination, intensely opposed by some lawyers that have threatened to strike, was hailed by others as an important victory in improving representation for women.

By Salman Masood
Jan. 6, 2022

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan cleared the way for the first woman in the country’s history to become a Supreme Court justice, when a judicial commission on Thursday approved the elevation of Justice Ayesha A. Malik to the top court.

The nomination of Justice Malik, a justice on Lahore’s High Court, was hailed by lawyers and activists who saw it as a rare victory after decades of struggle to secure greater representation and rights for women in Pakistan’s largely conservative and male-dominated society.

“This is historic,” said Aliya Hamza Malik, a member of parliament from the governing Tehreek-e-Insaf bloc. “It is a defining moment for women’s empowerment in the country.”

Her nomination, which was backed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, will now go to a parliamentary committee, which is expected to confirm her appointment to a 10-year term.

The path to Justice Malik’s nomination was not smooth. She has faced bitter opposition from a large section of the legal community, and some lawyers have threatened to go on strike if she becomes part of the Supreme Court bench.



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Pakistan, Under Water
Intense monsoon flooding has submerged a third of the country, causing mass destruction and death.
Oct. 5, 2022
1,500 dead, 33M displaced, they say it will take months to dry out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/podc ... oding.html
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Pakistan blackout: Cash-strapped nation cuts power to save money, then can't turn it back on

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Hospitals, schools, factories and tens of millions of homes across Pakistan were left without power Monday after the country's electricity grid suffered a nationwide outage. The huge blackout, right as parts of the country struggle through a harsh winter, was blamed by the country's federal energy minister Khurram Dastgir-Khan on a surge that knocked out the network.

In a bid to conserve Pakistan's rapidly-dwindling fuel supplies, electricity is often cut off during low usage hours overnight, especially in the winter when demand is highest. Dastgir-Khan told the Geo News network that power units were switched off Sunday night, but when technicians tried to turn the system back on at dawn, the network failed.

Power was still being gradually restored on Monday evening, but the blackout highlighted the creaking energy infrastructure in the country of 220 million people, which is already in the midst of an economic crisis driven by overwhelming national debt and depleted foreign cash reserves.

Like much of Pakistan's national infrastructure, the power grid desperately needs an upgrade. The government, which has lurched from one International Monetary Fund bail-out to the next just to keep the country running, says that kind of investment simply isn't possible.

Pakistan has enough power generation capacity to meet demand, but it lacks the resources to keep its oil-and-gas-fired powered plants running, and the energy sector is so heavily in debt that it cannot afford to invest in infrastructure like new power lines.
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Disbelief and anger among Greek shipwreck victims’ relatives as millions spent on Titan rescue effort
Disparity between rescue responses has sparked debate in Pakistan about double standards

Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad and Emma Graham-Harrison
Sun 25 Jun 2023 07.00 BST

Anees Majeed, who lost five relatives in the boat that sank off Greece on 14 June, watched in disbelief and growing anger as a frantic, multimillion-dollar rescue effort played out for five other men lost at sea last week.

Like thousands of others across Pakistan, Majeed, a law student from Pakistan-administered Kashmir, grieved at funeral prayers without a body to bury. At least 350 Pakistani citizens were on the overcrowded craft, the interior minister, Rana Sanaullah, confirmed on Friday.

There is little hope Majeed’s cousins will ever be found or brought home. The family are tormented by rising evidence that European authorities knew the boat was in trouble but did not intervene.

Yet as they began their mourning, a vast operation, involving craft from several countries, was getting under way. Its target was five men, also lost in the depths of the ocean, but on a trip they had chosen as an adventure, not one they were driven to make out of desperation. Two of them were also Pakistani citizens, but from the opposite end of the social scale to Majeed’s cousins – businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman.

The contrast between two tragedies at sea, the scale of efforts to rescue those in danger, and the global media response to both stories has stirred debate inside Pakistan about national and international inequality, and the different values put on human lives.

“We were shocked to know that millions would be spent on this rescue mission,” Majeed said. “They used all resources, and so much news came out from this search. But they did not bother to search for hundreds of Pakistanis and other people who were on the Greek boat.

“This is a double standard … they could have saved many of the people if they wanted, or at least they could have recovered the bodies.”

“It’s not the fault of five men that hundreds of people died off Greek shores. But it is the fault of a system where the class disparities are so huge,” said one senior journalist at a major Pakistani outlet, who asked not to be named. “When people point that out, it is misunderstood as hatred.” She said local media coverage of the migrant deaths may also have been curtailed by fatigue from reporting years of death and trauma from violence and natural disasters at home.

Still, the scale of the Mediterranean tragedy was hard to grasp. With more than 300 deaths, the toll exceeded any terror attack in the country’s history, Sanaullah said.

Pakistan’s often slow-moving authorities said they had arrested 14 suspects in connection with alleged human trafficking, and the country had a day of national mourning.




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IMHO why the outcry? The Pakistani government could have at any time jumped to action to assist in rescueing their countrymen, as the US and Canada did for residents of their own country. Pakistan still has the opportunity to search for the sunken vessel, recover whatever they wish. Maybe the Pakistani people ought to elect a government that acts in their favour, create favourable economic conditions, that does not make their citizens look for illegal entry in to European countries. Pakistan is a legally safe place, no one will be granted asylum.
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