Pakistan: New Bill on Government Surveillance Passed by National Assembly
(Jan. 11, 2013) On December 20, 2012, the National Assembly of Pakistan passed the Investigation for Fair Trial Bill, 2012, which will regulate the surveillance and interception powers of federal law...
View ArticlePakistan: Amendments to Anti-Terrorism Laws
(Apr. 16, 2013) In advance of the dissolution of Pakistan’s Parliament at the end of its five-year term, the Parliament recently passed a series of amendments to and new laws for its existing...
View ArticlePakistan: Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Establishes Mobile Courts
(Aug. 5, 2013) On July 28, 2013, Peshawar High Court (PHC) Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan inaugurated the establishment of mobile courts in the northern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK)...
View ArticlePakistan: National Assembly Extends Ordinance on Protection of Pakistan
(Feb. 11, 2014) On February 7, 2014, the National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the country’s legislature, passed a resolution to extend three anti-terrorism ordinances for a 120-day period,...
View ArticlePakistan: Sindh Provincial Assembly Passes Child Marriage Restraint Bill
(May 23, 2014) On April 29, 2014, the Provincial Assembly of Sindh passed Pakistan’s first law prohibiting child marriages. (Habib Khan Ghori, Sindh PA Passes Landmark Bill Prohibiting Child Marriages,...
View ArticleJordan; Pakistan; United Nations: Experts Warn Against Death Penalty Resumptions
(Jan. 2, 2015) United Nations human rights experts have recently warned of the dangers of the use of the death penalty, even in terrorism cases. The warning was prompted by the resumption of the...
View ArticlePakistan: Punjab Province Criminalizes the Glorification of Terrorism
(Jan. 23, 2015) On January 20, 2015, Pakistan’s Punjab provincial government promulgated an amendment to a maintenance of public order ordinance that criminalizes expressions of support, sympathy, and...
View ArticlePakistan: Punjab Government Considers Anti-Child Marriage Law
(Jan. 30, 2015) On January 29, 2015, the Chairperson of the Punjab Provincial Commission on the Status of Women, while speaking at a conference on child marriages in Pakistan, stated that the Punjab...
View ArticlePakistan: Constitutional Amendment to Extend Jurisdiction of Superior Courts...
(Mar. 3, 2015) On February 20, 2015, Pakistan’s Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice approved a constitutional amendment that would extend the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and a High Court...
View ArticlePakistan: Federal Government Plans to Introduce Legislation Prohibiting...
(Sept. 21, 2015) According to a September 10, 2015, news report, the Federal Government of Pakistan is considering legislation to prohibit takfir, a religious pronouncement or clerical ruling that...
View ArticlePakistan: Prison Rule Requires Condemned to Be Able to Stand on the Scaffold
(Oct. 9, 2015) The Magistrate in Faisalabad, Pakistan, stopped the execution of Abdul Basit over uncertainty on how to hang a person who is incapable of standing up, as required by the Pakistan Prisons...
View ArticlePakistan: Child Marriage Bill Withdrawn
(Jan. 25, 2016) On January 14, 2016, Pakistan’s National Assembly Standing Committee on Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony met to discuss the Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Bill 2014....
View ArticlePakistan: Hindu Marriage Bill Passed in Sindh Legislature
(Feb. 25, 2016) On February 15, 2016, the Provincial Assembly of Sindh passed the Hindu Marriage Bill 2016, applicable to Hindus and other non-Muslim citizens. It is reportedly the first of its kind in...
View ArticlePakistan: Senate Passes Bill to Criminalize Child Sexual Abuse and Child...
(Mar. 22, 2016) On March 11, 2016, the Senate, the upper house of Pakistan’s federal legislature, passed a bill that includes a number of amendments to Pakistan’s Penal Code and Code of Criminal...
View ArticlePakistan: Bills Introduced on Increased Representation of Women in the...
(May 26, 2016) On May 16, 2016, a member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and former law minister, Babar Awan, introduced a private member’s bill in the Senate, the upper house of Pakistan’s...
View ArticlePakistan: Regulatory Authority Bans Two Ramadan Programs
(June 29, 2016) On June 17, 2016, the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), an independent television and radio regulator, banned the transmission of two Ramadan TV specials, as one...
View ArticlePakistan: National Assembly Passes New Cybercrime Law
(Sept. 21, 2016) On August 11, 2016, Pakistan’s lower house, the National Assembly, passed a controversial cybercrime law called the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016. The Senate had...
View ArticlePakistan: National Assembly Passes Hindu Marriage Bill
(Nov. 15, 2016) On September 26, 2016, the Hindu Marriage Bill was unanimously passed in Pakistan’s National Assembly, after three previous failed attempts to pass the bill in 2008, 2011, and 2012....
View ArticlePakistan: Sindh Provincial Assembly Passes Law to Establish Commission for...
(Dec. 19, 2016) In what Assembly-member Nand Kumar Goklani called “a victory for the entire province,” Pakistan’s Sindh Province Assembly has unanimously adopted a private bill to establish a...
View ArticlePakistan: Sindh Provincial Assembly Passes New Law Prohibiting Forced...
(Dec. 22, 2016) On November 24, 2016, the provincial assembly of Pakistan’s Sindh Province passed a new law called the Criminal Law (Protection of Minorities) Act, 2015, which prohibits forced...
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