UN experts have expressed alarm at the reported rise in abductions, forced marriages and conversions of underage girls and young women from religious minorities in Pakistan and called for immediate efforts to curtail the practices and ensure justice for victims.
Additional Advocate General of Sindh High Court Kalpana Devi is a politician from Larkana and an official member of the PPP. She was banned by her own Hindu Panchayat from contesting elections, but she challenged the decision in court...
Moderator:
Sabahat Rizvi
Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan at Commons Law Company
Speakers:
Honourable Justice Abher Gul
Additional District and Sessions Judge, Lahore
Ayesha Jawad
Assistant Professor and HOD of the Nadira Hassan Law Department, Kinnaird College 3. Ms.
Rukhsana Ahmad
Advocate, Supreme Court...
Jun 30, 2020: Thirty four year old Sumaira Bibi tied the knot with a man named Ashraf three years ago. Sumaira was the resident of Allahabad, a small village near Chunian while Ashraf lived in the town of Baloki. The couple was blessed with ...
Jul 27, 2020: After 73 years, a 200 year old Gurdwara in Quetta has been handed over again to the Sikh community of Quetta. The community has expressed its happiness over the government’s initiative of restoring the Gurdwara ...
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By Ahmed Saeed
High courts have no authority for suo moto: SCP
On Tuesday, April 7, the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) rolled back under trial prisoners’ bails that had been granted by the high courts across the country.
The UTPs had...
MODERATOR:
Mansoor Awan, Partner at AJURIS, Advocates & Corporate Counsel
SPEAKERS:
Akhtar Mengal, MNA, President of Baluchistan National Party & former Chief Minister of Baluchistan Mian Iftikhar Hussain Secretary General, Awami National Party & former Minister of Information, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Quratulain Marri,...
On the 5th of December, a writ petition was filed and admitted by Asma Jahangir Legal Aid Cell through the petitioner, Salman Sufi, a social activist. The petition focuses on the constitutional right of privacy of the citizens of...
Jun 3, 2020: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, asked why is the integrity of judges being questioned when there is no concrete evidence. In the Supreme Court, a 10 member bench heard the petition filed by Justice Qazi Faez ...
A case was reported to AGHS by the victim Shama Parveen, a young woman aged 21. She was hired as a domestic servant in the house of an influential man in 2017.
She was later found murdered after being sexually...
