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Status: In force. The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan was passed by the Parliament of Pakistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in May 2018. Under the amendment, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) are to be merged with the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
Stripped the President of Pakistan of his reserve power to dissolve the National Assembly of Pakistan, and thereby triggering new elections and dismissing the Prime Minister. 1997 Full Text: 14th: Allowed members of parliament to be dismissed if they defect. 3 July 1997 Full Text: 15th: Bill to impose Shariah law as supreme law of land. Was ...
The Fundamental Rights in Pakistan encompass individual rights that are fundamental in many liberal democracies. These rights include essential principles such as equality before the law, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of association and peaceful assembly, and the freedom to practice religion. Violations of these rights may lead to ...
Alvin Robert Cornelius. Federation of Pakistan v. Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan (1955) was a court case of the Dominion of Pakistan. The Federal Court of Pakistan (now the Supreme Court of Pakistan) ruled in favor of the Governor General of Pakistan 's dismissal of the 1st Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. The dismissal was legally challenged by ...
The proposed amendments included addition of a new article 2B in the constitution, and amendment in Article 239 of the Constitution of Pakistan. It also sought to impose Sharia Law as supreme law in Pakistan, in light of the Objective Resolution of Pakistan. In addition to the Quran and Sunnah as is in the Constitution of Pakistan till today ...
The Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئینِ پاکستان ; ISO: Āīn-ē-Pākistān), also known as the 1973 Constitution, is the supreme law of Pakistan. The document guides Pakistan's law, political culture, and system. It sets out the state's outline, the fundamental rights of the population, the state's law and orders, and also the ...
In response, a new law was signed by the President on 20 December, guaranteeing free and compulsory education to boys and girls between the ages of five and 16. On 4 July 2012, women's human rights activist Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi was killed in a drive-by shooting as she left her home in Peshawar for work in the Khyber Tribal Agency.
Dosso vs Federation of Pakistan. In Dosso's case (1958), the Pakistan Supreme Court used jurist Hans Kelsen's theory that a revolution can be justified when the basic norm underlying a Constitution disappears and a new system is put in its place. When revolution came then the old system will be replaced with new system.