When the two countries, Pakistan and India, were separating under the British Raj, the British Parliament enacted the Indian Independence Act, 1947, to provide for the setting up and arrangements of the separation process of the two dominions. Here is the full text of the Act. Click to Download
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After going through many upas and downs since it’s inception until the 1973, Pakistan witnessed a comprehensive and an exhaustive Constitution approved and enacted unanimously on 12 April, 1973. This Constitution was, in many aspects, unique from previous ones. Slam was declared as a state religion. Principles of Policy were introduced in the new document
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The 29th February and 23rd March of 1956 are the significant occasions which marked milestones in the history of Pakistan. The then Constituent Assembly succeeded to pass the first written constitution on 29th February which was named as the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1956. However, the Constitution was not implemented on this
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Government of India Act, 1935 is a significant constitutional instrument which played a vital role in shaping the politics of the then sub-continent ruled by the British. This was the Act which inherited Pakistan after coming into being in 1947 which subsisted till the our own Constitution of 1956 was created. The state affairs were
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Here is the link to the Government of India Act, 1935: Click to Download
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This week, the Pakistani Parliament has enacted a Bill to regulate the Practice and Procedure of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Bill will become effective once it is signed by the President. Even if the President chooses not to sign it, it will become effective after 14 days. The legality of the Bill is
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No More Strikes, Please! When terrorists struck at a local court in Charsadda on March 7, 2016, and killed more than a dozen innocent people, right inside the court premises, court-going lawyers all over Pakistan felt not only sad but personally insecure. Back in 2014, we saw something similar happen in the heart of Islamabad’s
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