JUDGES in Pakistan are not popular right now. I was reminded of this when I spent an hour defending them on camera recently. It was for a podcast, where I’d been invited to talk about the 26th Amendment and wanted to laser focus on what I view as its most important and least understood feature — impact on regular citizens. The brutal attack on our individual liberties. The drastically reduced likelihood that we will ever see justice if we are wronged by powerful people. The fact that you and I and our future generations are less free because of it. I argued that all of this is an inevitable result of crippling the independence of the judiciary, so this amendment must be undone.
Most of the feedback was kind, but I tend to be more in
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