http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20180920-110553-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/mango-scented-sovereignty-pakistans-chief-justice-saqib-nisar-and-baba-justice/ Mango Scented Sovereignty: Pakistan’s Chief Justice Saqib Nisar and Baba-justice Hussain, Adeel eng 2018-09-17 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Judicial restraint Pakistani Supreme Court Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Politicization of the judiciary is a global trend. Pakistan’s Supreme Court is a particularly worrying example. With an ad-campaign, the Court is currently collecting donations for an ambitious dam project to resolve Pakistan’s looming water crises. Chief Justice Saqib Nisar would certainly prefer, as he convincingly repeats, a more pliant courtly existence. But the catastrophic shortcomings of the executive and legislature force him to take on big infrastructure projects – the failures have also pushed him to tackle school curriculums, fees for private medical school, pension of bank employees, random quality-checks in hospitals, surprise inspections of lower courts and ordering the arrest of a high ranking police officer who shared indecent images of his estranged wife on Facebook.