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The Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں دوسری ترمیم) became a part of the Constitution of Pakistan on 7 September 1974 under the Government of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. [1] It declared that Ahmadis (whom the amendment calls Qadianis) were non-Muslims. [1]
The Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2017 was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan aimed at restoration of delegation powers of the federal government to its officers or subordinate authorities which weren't included in the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan.
The law experts, constitutional analysts, and country's reputed clergymen worked on formulating a constitution that they hoped would represent the will and desire of people. [23] Unlike earlier attempts, the convention was not meant for new laws or piecemeal alterations, but for the "sole and express purpose of revising the 1956 articles."
Parliament was effectively deadlocked by strident opposition from Musharraf's opponents for over a year. In December 2003, a faction was persuaded to vote for a compromise amendment bill, the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan. With this amendment, parts of the Legal Framework Order were incorporated into the Constitution.
The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah had a vision regarding the law of Pakistan, to implement a system in accordance to Islamic teachings, but it was never fulfilled, although it was fulfilled at the later stage when Pakistan had its first constitution in 1956. This vision, however, did have a lasting effect on later Pakistani lawmakers.
The constitutional package was presented by the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) and attracted support from other parties; including the Pakistan People's Party, with its chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, and the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, with its chief Gohar Ali Khan, who expressed their agreement with the draft, citing previous consensus ...
The judiciary of Pakistan is the national system of courts that maintains the law and order in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan uses a common law system , which was introduced during the colonial era , influenced by local medieval judicial systems based on religious and cultural practices.
The Hudud Ordinances are laws in Pakistan enacted in 1979 as part of the Islamization of Pakistan by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan.It replaced parts of the British-era Pakistan Penal Code, adding new criminal offences of adultery and fornication, and new punishments of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death.