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Reforming the Judiciary in Pakistan
REFORMING THE JUDICIARY IN PAKISTAN Asia Report N°160 – 16 October 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS................................................. i I. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 1 II. BACKGROUND................................................................................................................ 3 A. ISLAMISING THE POLITY ..............................................................................................................3 B. VALIDATING MILITARY INTERVENTIONS .....................................................................................3 C. DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION AND JUDICIAL REFORM......................................................................5 III. ISLAMISING THE LEGAL SYSTEM: INSTITUTIONALISED DISCRIMINATION.......................................................................................................... 6 A. THE BLASPHEMY LAW.................................................................................................................6 B. TARGETING AHMADIS..................................................................................................................8 C. WOMEN AND THE HUDOOD ORDINANCES ..................................................................................10 D. THE FEDERAL SHARIAT COURT .................................................................................................11 IV. RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW ........................................................................... -
REFORM OR REPRESSION? Post-Coup Abuses in Pakistan
October 2000 Vol. 12, No. 6 (C) REFORM OR REPRESSION? Post-Coup Abuses in Pakistan I. SUMMARY............................................................................................................................................................2 II. RECOMMENDATIONS.......................................................................................................................................3 To the Government of Pakistan..............................................................................................................................3 To the International Community ............................................................................................................................5 III. BACKGROUND..................................................................................................................................................5 Musharraf‘s Stated Objectives ...............................................................................................................................6 IV. CONSOLIDATION OF MILITARY RULE .......................................................................................................8 Curbs on Judicial Independence.............................................................................................................................8 The Army‘s Role in Governance..........................................................................................................................10 Denial of Freedoms of Assembly and Association ..............................................................................................11 -
Building Judicial Independence in Pakistan
BUILDING JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN PAKISTAN 10 November 2004 Asia Report N°86 Islamabad/Brussels TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS................................................. i I. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 1 II. THE STRUCTURE AND HISTORY OF PAKISTAN'S JUDICIARY.................... 2 A. THE STRUCTURE OF PAKISTAN'S JUDICIARY ............................................................................2 B. COURTS AND POLITICS: PRE-1999 ENTANGLEMENTS.........................................................3 C. THE SUPREME COURT AND THE 12 OCTOBER 1999 COUP ..................................................5 III. JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS ............................................... 6 A. THE CONSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK.....................................................................................6 B. APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS IN PRACTICE..................................................................8 C. REFORMING THE APPOINTMENT AND PROMOTION OF JUDGES ...........................................11 IV. THE REMOVAL OF JUDGES................................................................................... 12 A. MEANS OF REMOVING JUDGES............................................................................................12 B. REFORMING REMOVALS AND STEMMING CORRUPTION.......................................................13 C. "ADDITIONAL" HIGH COURT JUDGES ..................................................................................14 -
Judgesʼ Library Monthly Newsletter
JUDGES’ LIBRARY MONTHLY NEWSLETTER Vol: 2 Issue: 1 January, 2014 LIST OF BOOKS FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY, A JUDGE SPEAKS OUT 2014 AJMAL MIAN OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, THE GOLDEN WARRIOR 2004 (THREE COPIES) LAWRENCE JAMES Oxford University Press, New Delhi, ABACUS, 2005` (ONE COPY) 2004. Hardbound. Book Condition: As During the 1920s—in the aftermath of New. New. Contents Preface. 1. The the Arab revolt against Britain—T. E. early years. 2. England. 3. The legal Lawrence gained global attention, both profession. 4. The High Court of Sindh. for his involvement in the Middle Eastern 5. Acting chief justice high court of anti-imperialist movement, and for his Balochistan. 6. Transfer back to the vivid and sensational writings about his high court of Sindh. 7. The chief justice experiences. Following World War I, his high court of Sindh. 8. Elevation to the appointment as an advisor to Winston Supreme Court of Pakistan. 9. Being Churchill—nearly simultaneous with the superseded. 10. The Judges case. 11. release of an American documentary President's reference no. 2. 12. Judicial about the revolt—further charged the T. crises. 13. The chief justice of Pakistan. E. Lawrence mania. Despite the 14. Final thoughts. Appendices. Notes. emergence of a whole new set of Glossary. Index. A Judge Speaks Out problems in the Middle East, and fueled provides some interesting anecdotes by the classic status of the epic movie and poignant moments from his life Lawrence of Arabia, the T. E. Lawrence his youth his migration at partition mystique continues to fascinate. from Delhi to Karachi in 1947 and the Controversial and provocative, this acclimatization of his family there to revised and updated edition of Lawrence his subsequent entry into the legal James’s acclaimed biography penetrates profession in 1957. -
1991 S C M R 703 Present: Zaffar Hussain Mirza and Ajmal Mian, JJ
1991 S C M R 703 Present: Zaffar Hussain Mirza and Ajmal Mian, JJ MUHAMMAD SAJJAD HUSSAIN ---Appellant versus MUHAMMAD ANWAR HUSSAIN ---Respondent Civil Appeal No.361-K of 1990, decided on 16th December, 1990. (From the judgment, dated 29-11-1988 of the High Court of Sindh, Karachi, passed in First Appeal No.42 of 1981). (a) Benami transaction--- ---- Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art.185(3)---Leave to appeal was granted to consider the question, whether the two Courts below had misread the evidence on record or omitted to take into consideration material evidence and whether they failed to consider the primary and most important question as to the source of money for the purchase of suit house. (b) Constitution or Pakistan (1973)--- ----Art. 185---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), 5.100---Appeal to Supreme Court---Concurrent finding of fact of two Courts below---Supreme Court when can interfere. When the appeal in hand is not an appeal under section 100 of the C.P.C., Supreme Court is not precluded to examine the concurrent finding of fact. It is true that while considering the question of grant of leave to appeal against a judgment, Supreme Court declines to grant leave to app6al against a concurrent finding of fact unless it is demonstrated that the finding is perverse or is based on misreading of evidence or contrary to the evidence on record. However, once leave is granted on a question which involves appraisal of evidence, Supreme Court does examine the correctness of the concurrent Finding of fact recorded by the two Courts below and it sets aside if it is found that the same is based on misreading of evidence or is contrary to evidence. -
Defining Shariʿa the Politics of Islamic Judicial Review by Shoaib
Defining Shariʿa The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review By Shoaib A. Ghias A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Jurisprudence and Social Policy in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in Charge: Professor Malcolm M. Feeley, Chair Professor Martin M. Shapiro Professor Asad Q. Ahmed Summer 2015 Defining Shariʿa The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review © 2015 By Shoaib A. Ghias Abstract Defining Shariʿa: The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review by Shoaib A. Ghias Doctor of Philosophy in Jurisprudence and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley Professor Malcolm M. Feeley, Chair Since the Islamic resurgence of the 1970s, many Muslim postcolonial countries have established and empowered constitutional courts to declare laws conflicting with shariʿa as unconstitutional. The central question explored in this dissertation is whether and to what extent constitutional doctrine developed in shariʿa review is contingent on the ruling regime or represents lasting trends in interpretations of shariʿa. Using the case of Pakistan, this dissertation contends that the long-term discursive trends in shariʿa are determined in the religio-political space and only reflected in state law through the interaction of shariʿa politics, regime politics, and judicial politics. The research is based on materials gathered during fieldwork in Pakistan and datasets of Federal Shariat Court and Supreme Court cases and judges. In particular, the dissertation offers a political-institutional framework to study shariʿa review in a British postcolonial court system through exploring the role of professional and scholar judges, the discretion of the chief justice, the system of judicial appointments and tenure, and the political structure of appeal that combine to make courts agents of the political regime. -
Honour Killing in Pakistan
South Asian Studies A Research Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 25, No. 2, July-December 2010, pp. 361-411 The Law on Honour Killing: A British Innovation in the Criminal Law of the Indian Subcontinent and its Subsequent Metamorphosis under Pakistan Penal Code Tahir H. Wasti The Islamic College, London ABSTRACT In the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, hundreds of women are killed every year in the name of honour. Such a barbaric and inhuman custom has existed in the subcontinent for many centuries yet under the pre-colonial criminal justice system of India; the perpetrators of such killings were dealt with like the other offenders of murder; without any exception or impunity from prosecution and punishment. However, it was the Indian Penal Code drafted by the British in 1860 that brought in the tradition of treating the offenders of honour killings with leniency and latitude. In 1990, Pakistan introduced its version of ‘Islamic’ criminal law which allowed for compromise between the parties of a murder case. The ‘new law’ reconceptualised the law of culpable homicide and murder in this country. Under the ‘new law’ the offence of murder was not defined as a crime against the legal order of the State but as against the legal heirs of the victim. Since in most honour related crimes the women are killed by their own family members, the new law provided a virtual immunity to the culprits of honour killings. During the past few years, thousands of men and women have been killed in honour-related crimes. This piece of research surveys the history and escalation in honour killings after the enforcement of Islamic criminal law in Pakistan. -
Role of the Supreme Court in the Constitutional and Political
Journal of Politics and Law; Vol. 5, No. 2; 2012 ISSN 1913-9047 E-ISSN 1913-9055 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education Role of the Supreme Court in the Constitutional and Political Development of Pakistan: History and Prospects Comparative Study of Begum Nusrat Bhutto (1977) and Syed Zafar Ali Shah Case (2000) Fayyaz Ahmad Hussain1 & Abdul Basit Khan2 1 Former Faculty Member, Department of Political Science & International Relations, Bahauddin Zakariya University (BZU), Multan, Pakistan 2 Department of Political Science & International Relations, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Correspondence: Abdul Basit Khan, Lecturer, Department of Political Science & International Relations, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Tel: 92-300-609-0344. E-mail: [email protected] Received: April 3, 2012 Accepted: April 19, 2012 Online Published: May 11, 2012 doi:10.5539/jpl.v5n2p82 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jpl.v5n2p82 Abstract Pakistan has undergone the imposition of Martial Law for quite a few times. On these occasions, the then existing constitutions were either abrogated or held in abeyance and were partially applicable. Invariably these extra constitutional steps were challenged in the courts of law. The historical background of these cases had similarities and dissimilarities; nevertheless irrespective of similarities the courts of law examined these cases in somewhat different manner and from variant angles. Irrespective of the nature of their verdicts in these cases, the same had very serious impact and significant repercussions on the style and development of the political system in Pakistan. The aim of this study is to compare and contrast the background of the imposition of Martial Law in 1977 and military takeover of 1999 alongwith the verdicts of the superior judiciary when the same were challenged and brought before the courts of law. -
Annual Report 2015–2016
SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN ANNUAL REPORT June 2015 - May 2016 ANNUAL REPORT June 2015 - May 2016 Supreme Court of Pakistan ANNUAL REPORT June 2015 - May 2016 Supreme Court of Pakistan Constitution Avenue, Islamabad Ph: 051-9220581-600 Fa x: 051-9215306 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.supremecourt.gov.pk Branch Registry Lahore Nabha Road. Ph: 042-99212401-4 Fax: 042-99212406 Branch Registry Karachi MR Kiyani Road. Ph: 021-99212306-8 Fax: 021-99212305 Branch Registry Peshawar Khyber Road. Ph: 091-9213601-5 Fax: 091-9213599 Branch Registry Quetta High Court of Balochistan Building Quetta. Ph: 081-9201365 Fax: 081-9202244 Published by: Supreme Court of Pakistan Compiled & edited by: Khawaja Daud Ahmad, Additional Registrar (Administration) Saleem Ahmad, Librarian, Supreme Court of Pakistan ii Supreme Court of Pakistan ANNUAL REPORT June 2015 - May 2016 CONTENTS 1. Foreword by the Chief Justice of Pakistan 1 2. Registrar’s Report 2 3. Profile of the Chief Justice and Judges 5 3.1 Profile of the Chief Justice of Pakistan 6 3.2 Profile of Judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan 7 3.3 Chief Justices & Judges Retired During June 2015 to 34 May 2016 4. Supreme Court of Pakistan 35 4.1 Introduction 36 4.2 Seat of Supreme Court 37 4.3 Branch Registries 37 4.4 Supreme Court Composition, June 2015 to May 2016 39 4.5 Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court 40 4.6 Procedure for the Appointment of Judges of the 42 Supreme Court of Pakistan 4.7 Judicial Commission of Pakistan 43 4.8 Composition of the Judicial Commission of Pakistan 45 4.9 Judicial Commission of Pakistan Rules, 2010 45 4.10 Oath of Office 46 4.11 The Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan 47 4.12 Code of Conduct for Judges of the Supreme Court and 48 the High Courts 4.13 The Supreme Judicial Council Procedure of Inquiry, 50 2005 4.14 Supreme Judicial Council – Reference No. -
1997SCMR1234 [Supreme Court of Pakistan] Present: Ajmal Mian
1997SCMR1234 [Supreme Court of Pakistan] Present: Ajmal Mian, Abdul Hafeez Memon and Mukhtar Ahmad Junejo, JJ Dr. MUHAMMAD SHOAIB SUDDLE, D.I.-G. POLICE, KARACHI and others---Petitioners versus THE STATE---Respondent Criminal Petitions Nos.214-K and 215-K of 1996, decided on 16th December, 1996. (On appeal from the judgment/order, dated 2-12-1996, of the High Court of Sindh. Karachi, passed in Cr. Bail No.1890/1996 and Cr, Bail No.1881/96 respectively). , (a) Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)--- S. 498---Pre-arrest bail---Principle---Arrest for ulterior motives such as humiliation and unjustified harassment is a valid consideration for .grant of pre-arrest bail. Hidayatullah Khan. v.' Crown PLD 1949 Lah. 21; Sadiq Ali v. State PLD 1966 SC 589; Murad Khan's case PLD 1983 SC 82. Ziaul Hassan's case PLD 1984 SC 1 and Jamaluddin v. State 1985 SCMR 1949 ref. (b) Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)- ----S. 498---Penal Code (XLV of 1860) Ss.302/120-B/148/149---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art.185(3)---Pre-arrest bail---Accused was not shown in all the three F.I.Rs. to be present at the scene of occurrence at any time before or after the incident resulting in the death of deceased, a political leader, and his companions---No material as yet was available with the prosecution showing involvement of accused in the alleged conspiracy by the political opponents of deceased in the Federal and Provincial Governments to eliminate him---Accused was not named in the interim challan as an accused person in the relevant columns, nor his name was included in column No.2 thereof and yet the police was out to arrest him---Petition for leave to appeal was converted into appeal in circumstances and pre-arrest bail was granted to accused accordingly. -
Genesis and Evolution of Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court of Pakistan: Toward a Dynamic Theory of Judicialization
_28.2_KHAN_ARTICLE 4 (DO NOT DELETE) 2/23/2015 8:15 PM GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN: TOWARD A DYNAMIC THEORY OF JUDICIALIZATION Maryam S. Khan I. INTRODUCTION Judicial activism in South Asia, as well as the unique form of pro-poor litigation known as ―public interest litigation‖ (PIL) on which much of it rests, has received considerable attention in recent years from both South Asian and foreign scholars. The concept of public interest law or PIL is not novel and is often instinctively traced back to the PIL phenomenon of the 1960s in the United States. In recent decades, the American practice has been a notional counterpart of public interest in courts in other constitutional systems. However, the South Asian incarnation of PIL is, in many ways, distinguishable from the Anglo-American experience. Upendra Baxi‘s early critique of the Indian Supreme Court‘s activism in the mid-1980s is the classic statement of the distinctiveness of the Indian genre of PIL. Baxi uses the term ―social action litigation‖ (SAL) to emphasize the very different historical triggers, institutional settings, and conceptual groundings of PIL in the Indian context. The * Oscar R. Ruebhausen South Asia Yale Fellow (Yale Law School), 2010. An earlier draft of this article was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), 2014, and at the Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Workshop in Doha, Qatar, 2014. My deep appreciation to Sudha Setty and Anil Kalhan for their fervent interest in my research and for providing me the opportunity to present through proxy at the AALS due to my inability to personally attend the Annual Meeting. -
Dsra Central Executive Committee Members
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF DEFENCE SOCIETY RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION (Updated upto 14th October 2018) DSRA CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS Mr. Sharfuddin Memon Mr. Zahid Iqbal Mrs. Tahira Athar Nasim Mr. Mansoor I. Usmani Mr. MuhammadMr. Zia Naqi Najeeb President Vice President Vice President Hon General Secretary WaliHon (Hon Joint Gen. Secretary Secretary) Capt. Farooq D. Harekar PN Mr. Nasir Jahangir Rifat Mr. Aziz Suharwardy Admiral (R) Sajjad Akbar Eng. Anwar ul Haq Siddiqui Hon Treasurer Immediate Past President Ex Officio Vice President CBC Ex Officio Edu. & Welfare Trust Ex-Officio Health & Welfare Trust Cdr. ( R) Anjum Bashir Arain Mrs. Azra Siddiqui Mr. Fawad Yusuf Mrs. Fouzia Anjum Mrs. Farkhunda Ahmed CEC Member CEC Member CEC Member CEC Member CEC Member Fahim Suleman Mrs. H. Shahnaz Khalid Capt. ( R) Iftikhar Ahmed Dr. Mirza Shadab Afzal Beg Mr. Muhammad. Younus Rizvi CEC Member CEC Member CEC Member (EC Member CEC Member Mr. Muhammad Nadeem Mr. M. Pervaiz Mirza Mr. Raffat Kamal Pasha Mrs. Samina Sikander Mrs. Shamim A. Shama CEC Member CEC Member CEC Member CEC Member CEC Member CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2017-2018 OFFICE BEARERS Mr. Sharfuddin Memon President Mr. Zahid iqbal Vice President Mrs. Tahira Athar Naseem Vice President Mr. Mansoor I. Usmani Hon. General Secretary Mr. Zia Naqi Hon. Joint Secretary Capt. (R) Farooq Dawood Herekar Hon. Treasurer EX OFFICIO MEMBERS Mr. Nasir Jahangir Rifat Immediate Past President Mr. Aziz Suharwardy Vice President CBC Admiral Sajjad Akbar Chairman, Educational & Welfare Trust Engr. Anwarul Haq Siddiqui Chairman Health &Welfare Trust MEMBERS Cdr. (R) Anjum Bashir Arain Mr. M. Younus Rizvi Mr.