nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180920-110553-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180917s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180920-110553-0 doi eng 342 23 Hussain, Adeel Author aut Mango Scented Sovereignty: Pakistan’s Chief Justice Saqib Nisar and Baba-justice Hussain, Adeel Verfassungsblog 2018-09-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Judicial restraint Pakistani Supreme Court Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/mango-scented-sovereignty-pakistans-chief-justice-saqib-nisar-and-baba-justice/ raw object