Talk of ‘Hybrid System’ Is Admission of Dictatorship: Justice Minallah

Talk of ‘hybrid system’ is admission of dictatorship: Justice Minallah

Blames "lack of constitutional governance" for country’s elite capture; Khawaja Asif responds.

Remarks of Justice Athar Minallah about judiciary suggest he should resign if the system is what he claims

By Agha Iqrar Haroon Supreme Court Justice Athar Minallah is once again at the center of controversy after he claimed in Karachi that Pakistan’s 77-year judicial history is not a source of pride for him. He stressed the need for the supremacy of the Constitution, discredited the parliamentary system, and demanded accountability from all institutions. Raised in a politically active family, he is the son of the late Bilquis Nasrum Minallah, who se…

Hybrid system means dictatorship: Athar Minallah

KARACHI: Justice Athar Minallah, while talking to lawyers at KBA Thursday (4th Sept, 2025) here has maintained that hybrid system meant dictatorship. According to him: “It is something to accept that people today say there is a hybrid system, that means there is dictatorship and there is no constitutional governance.…I had to write in many high court orders that there is no rule of law or Constitution in the country; there is elite capture...Unf…