Mumtaz Bibi v Qasim: Islamabad High Court’s Landmark Judgment on Child Marriage
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As per a recent UNICEF report, Pakistan is home to ...
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The ‘Crimmigration’ of Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India
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India has ...
Muhammad Shahzad Khaliq v. The State: Survivor-Centric Guidelines in Responding to Child Pornography
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In August 2015, a gang running a pedophile and pornography ring ...
Muhammad Wasim v. The State: Loopholes in the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2016
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Ameer Bakhsh v. Additional Sessions Judge: On Marriage without Iddah
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Pakistan’s Inspirational Transgender Persons’ Law- Some Years Later
The Parliament of Pakistan had passed the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in May 2018 and it might ...
Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan declares the custom of Swara as un-Islamic and unconstitutional
On 25 October 2021, a three-judge bench of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan (FSC) headed by the FSC Chief ...
Nadia Naz v President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Supreme Court of Pakistan Restricts the Scope of ‘Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplace Act 2010’
On 5 July 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) delivered the judgement in Nadia Naz v. ...
Supreme Court of Pakistan declares “two-finger test” unconstitutional
On 4 January 2021, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan pronounced a significant judgment in Atif ...
Supreme Court of Pakistan prohibits execution of condemned prisoners with mental illnesses: A promising start towards reforming Pakistan’s death penalty problem?
On 10 February, 2021, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) delivered its landmark judgement in ...
Sadaf Aziz v. Federation of Pakistan: The end of virginity testing in Pakistan?
Across Pakistan, the two finger test (TFT), also known as the virginity and hymen test is conducted on female ...
Pakistan and disability law – The dawn of a more inclusive society?
Until the summer of this year, Pakistan did not have any adequate state legislation or any other mechanism in ...
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