The 2018 Transgender Persons Act – one of the most progressive in the world – has been gutted by the country’s top Shariah court. While Pakistan and its mainstream media remained engulfed in a ...

Pakistan has launched its first-ever university-level course focused on food legal systems, marking a major step in addressing food governance, ...

The blasphemy law – and its death sentence – is ripe for abuse and extortion. Is Pakistan’s government finally going to make ...

These are not merely aspirational clauses; they are enforceable rights that form the foundation of Pakistan’s legal order.

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a law student at the University Law College, University of ...

The parliament of Pakistan moved this week to tighten its already far-reaching blasphemy laws, under which numerous Christians and other minorities have been prosecuted and subjected to mob violence, ...

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The elderly man’s troubles started when two young men milling inside his homeopathic clinic casually asked him about his religion. He thought they were merely curious. In fact, ...

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Izhar Ahmed Khan is a 2022 LL.B. graduate of the Pakistan College of Law ...

Pakistan amended its law against terrorism, allowing officers to detain people suspected of a terror link up to three months without trial, which activists say could ...

Pakistan’s national assembly has amended the British-era Christian Marriage Act, raising the minimum age of marriage for Christians to 18, which Christian leaders say will curb early marriages and ...

As of 2020, at least 40 people were serving a life sentence or facing execution for blasphemy in the country. One of the most famous cases in recent years was that of Asia Bibi, a Catholic woman who ...