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Pakistan
Islamic Republic of Pakistan / Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan

Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources

Constitution

  • Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Zartash Uzmi and Shehzaad Nakhoda)
  • International Constitutional Law: Pakistan (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

Executive

  • President
  • Federal Ministers
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Judicial

  • Pakistan. Provincial Assembly of Balochistan
  • Pakistan. Provincial Assembly of NWFP
  • Pakistan. Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
  • Pakistan. Provincial Assembly of Sindh
  • Supreme Court
  • Suspension and Reinstatement of the Chief Justice of Pakistan (Law Library of Congress)
  • Lahore High Court

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Legislative

  • PARLIAMENT: Dissolved in 1999; Majlis-e-Shoora [Parliament] consisted of the Senate and National Assembly
  • Pakistan Law Commission
  • Pakistan. Senate. Standing Committee on Defence & Defence Production
  • Pakistan. Senate. Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas
  • Pakistan. Senate. Standing Committee on Education and Science & Technology
  • GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations
  • NATLEX: Pakistan (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights

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Legal Guides

  • Global Legal Monitor: Pakistan (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
  • Multinational Collections Database: Pakistan (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
  • Pakistan: Constitutionality of the Proclamation of Emergency (Law Library of Congress)
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution in Pakistan (Salman Ravala via GlobaLex)
  • AsianLII: Pakistan (Asian Legal Information Institute)
  • FindLaw: Pakistan
  • ForIntLaw: Pakistan (Washburn University Law Library)
  • Islamic Family Law: Pakistan (Emory University Law School)
  • Judicial Assistance: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • JURIST: Pakistan (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
  • UPDATE: A Legal Research Guide to Pakistan (Omar Sial via GlobaLex)
  • World Legal Information Institute: Pakistan (WorldLII)
  • World Legal Materials from Asia: Pakistan (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

  • Country Study: Pakistan (Library of Congress) April 1994
  • Portals to the World: Pakistan (Library of Congress)
  • Background Note: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Pakistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Consular Information Sheet: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Information: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Country Profile of Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of Labor)
  • Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under South Asia
  • Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • Economic Briefing: Pakistan (The Economist)
  • Embassy of Pakistan, Washington
  • Governments on the WWW: Pakistan (Gunnar Anzinger)
  • Human Rights in Pakistan (Amnesty International)
  • International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library of Pakistan
  • NEWS: BBC World South Asia
  • Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York
  • U.S. Embassy, lslamabad (U.S. Dept. of State)
  • World Factbook: Pakistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
  • World Hunger: Pakistan (World Food Programme)
  • WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Pakistan (Google); Pakistan (University of Michigan) Pakistan (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Pakistan (SouthAsianist.Info)

For more information on Pakistan see:

  • Global Legal Monitor: Pakistan
  • Pakistan: Proclamation of Emergency
  • Pakistan: Crisis in the Judiciary

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Last Updated: 03/19/2009

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