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Contributions to News Media & Periodicals<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>[vc_column_text el_class=”themeParas”]The Network<\/a> members have been regular commentators on, and are regularly cited by, the local and international print as well as electronic news media on various legal, political, constitutional and human rights themes, including, inter alia<\/em>, Al Jazeera, BBC, The Guardian,\u00a0Development and Cooperation (D+C), The News International, Express Tribune, The Friday Times, Herald, Tanqeed, and various Pakistani television channels. The following are some representative research based articles in various periodicals that have endeavored to inform and bolster the public discourses on important national issues.[\/vc_column_text][vc_accordion][vc_accordion_tab title=”View Publications” border=”panel-no-border”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Myth of the Muslim Monolith (on sectarian violence in Pakistan), Development + Cooperation, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n Legibility as a Political Project (on \u201cDifference & the State\u201d), Tanqeed Conversation on South Asia, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n Ambiguous Ambitions (on Pakistan\u2019s Supreme Court), Development\u00a0+ Cooperation, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n Grave Implications (on Pakistan’s Supreme Court), The News on Sunday, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n Legal Solution to a Political Question (on the “Memogate” issue), The News on Sunday, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n Towards a New Hegemony (on Pakistan\u2019s Supreme Court), The Friday Times, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n Lawless in Sialkot (on vigilantism and police accountability), The Friday Times, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n Legal Drones (on frivolous litigation), The News on Sunday, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n A Society without Meaningful Dissent (on uncritical public discourses and lack of dissenting judgments), Express Tribune, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n The Lawyers Movement and its Fragments (on the disintegration of the ethos of the Lawyers\u2019 Movement), The News on Sunday, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n The Language of Justice (on challenges faced by ordinary litigants due to unfamiliarity with legal language), Express Tribune, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n And Justice for All (on the costs of seeking justice for ordinary litigants), Express Tribune, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n The Agents of Justice (on the access to and role of lawyers in ordinary litigants\u2019 pursuit of justice), Express Tribune, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n Waiting for Justice (on the delays faced by ordinary litigants in their pursuit of justice), Express Tribune, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n The Custodians of the Supreme Court (on the implications of judicial pursuit of popularity), Express Tribune, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n Judicial Appointments and Accountability: A Flawed Debate (on performance of constitutional mechanisms for judicial appointments and accountability), The Friday Times, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n The Wasteland of Justice Sector Discourse (on the limitations of the national institutional reform discourse), The Friday Times, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n Of Judges and Drones (on the legality of drone attacks), Harvard Law Record, 2009<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″] Public Lectures<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>[vc_column_text el_class=”themeParas”]The Network<\/a>\u00a0members also regularly deliver lectures and talks at public fora and universities and engage in online discussions in order to disseminate their research findings to students and a general non-academic audience, and contribute to deeper popular understanding of key national political, constitutional and legal issues. The following are links to such representative lectures, talks and presentations.[\/vc_column_text][vc_accordion][vc_accordion_tab title=”View Lectures & Engagements” border=”panel-no-border”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Role of the Senate in an Ethno-Federal State (Forman Christian College: 2015<\/span>)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Does Pakistan Need to Re-Write its Constitution? (Herald: 2014<\/a>)<\/p>\n Ethnic Federalism in Pakistan (LUMS: 2012<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n Pakistan\u2019s Experience with Formal Law, Future of Reforms and Role of Universities and Scholarship in the Justice Discourse (Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan: 2015)<\/a><\/p>\n Law Reforms in Pakistan: History, Sociology, Challenges and Tribulations (Quaid-e-Azam Library: 2014)<\/a><\/p>\n Institutional Performance and Key Public Sector Appointments (Herald: 2013)<\/a><\/p>\n Pakistan\u2019s Blasphemy Laws and their Implications (Herald: 2012)<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″] Political Activism<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>[vc_column_text el_class=”themeParas”]The Network<\/a>\u00a0members were active participants in the Lawyers\u2019 Movement to restore judges ousted by General Pervez Musharraf in 2007, and organizers of protests amongst the academic community and lawyers. Mr. Faisal Mahmood Khan<\/strong> was one of the many protesting lawyers who were illegally incarcerated during this period. In an endeavor to raise international awareness about the unconstitutionality of Musharraf\u2019s regime and its adverse ramifications for democratic sustainability, Dr. Osama Siddique<\/strong> gave a series of talks in Pakistan as well as in the U.S.A including at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, and Boston College, during a period when the Musharraf regime was persecuting and arresting dissenters and protestors.<\/p>\n Dr. Siddique<\/strong> has also been extensively engaged in the past as a pro bono<\/em> lawyer in petitions challenging General Pervez Musharraf\u2019s various legislative steps to curb the constitutional rights of political association (in particular, the rights to form and join political parties and to contest in elections) and his executive actions leading to the ad hoc<\/em> takeover of the management of national institutions and their placement under military administration.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][vc_column_text el_class=”themeParas”]The Network members have been regular commentators on, and are regularly cited by, the local and international print as well as electronic news media on various legal, political, constitutional and human rights themes, including, inter alia, Al Jazeera, BBC, The Guardian,\u00a0Development and Cooperation (D+C), The News International, Express Tribune, The Friday Times, . . .<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1614,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-fullwidth.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1617\/revisions\/2200"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lprn.org.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Articles by Maryam S. 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Dr. Osama Siddique:<\/h5>\n