Feisal Naqvi is a partner at the firm of Bhandari, Naqvi & Riaz based in Lahore, Pakistan. He studied Islamic history at Princeton before going on to study law at Yale. Other pieces written by him are archived at www.monsoonfrog.wordpress.com Email: [email protected]
If it were fictional, the Raymond Davis saga would have had a shot for best original screenplay. This one had it all — shootouts, car chases, duplicitous allies and one humdinger of a courtroom climax. The bare bones of the Davis episode are well known. On January 27, 2011, a man subsequently identifying himself as…
by Feisal H. Naqvi Most people know the former Chief Justice of Pakistan, A. R. Cornelius, as one of the great jurists produced by this benighted country. He is remembered fondly as the lone dissenting voice in the infamous Dosso case (which was the first of a long line of cases to justify military rule)…
by Feisal H. Naqvi It is a cold hard fact of nature that those who start revolutions often do not get to enjoy them. Many of the sans culottes who stormed the Bastille in 1789 paid for their temerity with their lives. In 1917, the Tsar was ousted not by the Bolsheviks but by Kerensky…
by Feisal Hussain Naqvi Being a Shia means different things to different people. In my case, being a Shia means that if I am as professionally successful as I hope to be, someone will want to kill me. Or, to be less melodramatic, it means I can’t play golf on Ashura. The fact that being…
By Feisal Naqvi Every night on my TV screen, Alan Shore stands up in defense of a quixotic quest. Sometimes he defends the clearly guilty; sometimes he protects the innocent. But in each episode full of courtroom magic, he bends the jury to his will. As a lawyer working in Pakistan, I have no shortage…