Sonya Syed

  Today I am deeply saddened and lost for words at the passing away of  Mr. Sohail Muzaffar. A lthough my teacher, my mentor and a wonderful soul Mr. Sohail left us for his  heavenly  abode in February 2021. The most painful thing is that I just came to know about his news few days ago when I tried to call him for some advice. He wasn’t picking up the phone so I checked his facebook to contact him and from there I came to know of his passing away. Every day I thought about calling him but one thing or the other happened and I kept postponing my call; for almost a year I have not even looked at my facebook account. Yet I always found solace from the very thought that he will be fine and some fine day I will call him or probably pay him a surprise visit at his office and then we will gossip about the latest happenings over a cup of coffee.  All these plans only remained in my mind, for years I made plans but never acted on them. Today I am at lost for any words, I wish I would have cal

Finally Sindh govt is taking a positive step to reform our Police Rules,  FIR (or the first information report) which is lodged by a victim or by their relative or even by a citizen was enough for police to make an arrest without collecting any concrete evidence or conducting full investigation. Our law makers must have had good intentions when they made this law; however, this FIR has been a nuisance and was used or more appropriately abused by powerful and ill-intentioned people to falsely trap innocent people and suspects in the vicious chakra of crime. Recently in Shahzada Qaiser Arfat v. The State , Justice Syed Mansoor Ali of the Honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan observed that having power is one thing but using this power with proper justification is a totally different ball game (Article 4(1) (j) of the Police Order, 2002 and Police Rules, 1934 gave power to police under Section 54 of the CrPC to make an arrest without a warrant).  According to the above judgement no p