STATE OF JUSTICE SYSTEM IN PAKISTAN In assessing the justice system of Pakistan, predominantly, it is assumed that the real issue is with the criminal justice system. This, however, is not supported by the statistics. The latest rankings of the Rule of Law Index 2015 (Global) ranked Pakistan at 98 out of 102 countries. It showed that Pakistan did fairly …

Introduction On 29th February 2016, with the assent of the Governor Punjab, the Punjab Protection of Women against Violence Bill turned into an act of the provincial legislature. The debate, as frequently happens in Pakistan, initiated after the law was passed. The views were expressed in binary terms: in black and white, good and bad, noble and evil, and ‘progressive’ …

Introduction The Supreme Court of Pakistan rendered two judgements recently that included substantial questions of international law: one was the case of Houbara bustard that had excited a lot of public interest and discussion, and at the heart of it was a jurisprudential question touching upon the area of the Public International Law; the other case related to a suit …

Introduction The National Action Plan (NAP), consisting of twenty policy actions to fight terrorism, has got attention from all quarters due to its anecdotal, administrative and political origins. Although many analysts and experts have discussed its various facets in their writings, the aspect that has received only a little or even zero attention is the constitutional and legal status of …

On 20th September 2015, Nepal adopted a new constitution that was prepared by its Second Constituent Assembly. The instant write-up is aimed at presenting briefly the constitutional developments in Nepal since its independence. It will also examine the structure of the new Constitution of Nepal. Finally, it will try to summarily compare it with the Constitution of Pakistan. Constitutional History …

The author has been teaching the methodology for preparation for competitive examinations for some time now. Based on his own experience as well as on interaction with the aspirants for the competitive exams, the author has discovered some primary techniques which he has collectively categorized as ‘methodology for preparation for a competitive examination’. The author does not claim the universality …

Introduction Sensu stricto (strictly speaking), there are no models of the criminal justice. Even so, the criminal justice system of a country, on close examination, may be found following a value or set of values that define its underlying ideology, which may punctuate at every stage of the criminal processes involved in it. The criminologists prefer to style these underlying …

  Introduction Quintessentially, the United Nations Charter is an international treaty; its Article 33 in Chapter VI provides for mechanisms for pacific settlement of disputes. It provides that the parties to any dispute, shall, in the first place, and in cases where international security and peace is likely to be endangered, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, …

The Judgement of the Supreme Court of Pakistan on the 18th and the 21st Amendments The factum of the creation of Pakistan as an independent state derived its legality from successive constitutional instruments: the 1956, the 1962 and the 1973 Constitutions being the most conspicuous. The extant constitutional instrument is the Constitution of Pakistan 1973 that has been, to date, …

The President’s Task Force On 21st Century Policing In The Us & How It Is Relevant To Pakistan In the absence of serious academic and independent research on the state of affairs of policing in Pakistan, it may be apposite to take clues from the international perspectives. One such perspective was offered as a result of the Ferguson firing case …