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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)
• Constitution Finder (University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law)
• International Constitutional Law: Pakistan (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

Executive

• President
• Prime Minister
• Government
• Ministry of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Election Commission of Pakistan
• Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority
• Pakistan Competition Commission
• Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority
• Pakistan Frequency Allocation Board
• Pakistan Federal Board of Revenue
• Pakistan Financial Monitoring Unit
• Pakistan National Electric Power Regulatory Authority
• Pakistan Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority
• Pakistan Privatisation Commission
• Pakistan Public Procurement Regulatory Authority
• Pakistan Securities and Exchange Commission
• Pakistan State Bank
• Pakistan Telecommunication Authority
• Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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Judicial

• Supreme Court
• Federal Shariat Court
• Balochistan High Court
• Islamabad High Court
• Lahore High Court
• Peshawar High Court
• Sindh Karachi High Court
• Federal Judicial Academy
• Suspension and Reinstatement of the Chief Justice of Pakistan (Law Library of Congress)

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Legislative

• PARLIAMENT: Bicameral Majlis-e-Shoora consists of the Senate and the National Assembly
• 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
• Laws of Pakistan (Pakistanlaw.net)
• Consumer Protection Laws (Consumer Rights Commission of Pakistan)
• Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services
• Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency
• Pakistan Law Commission
• Pakistan Lawyer - includes legislative information
• Pakistan Legislative History (Pakistani.org)
• Pakistan Senate Committees:
  • Standing Committee on Defence & Defence Production
  • Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas
  • Standing Committee on Education and Science & Technology
• Provincial / Territorial Assemblies:
  • Provincial Assembly of Balochistan
  • Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa
  • Provincial Assembly of the Punjab
  • Provincial Assembly of Sindh
  • Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
• Punjab Laws Online
• Azad Jammu and Kashmir Laws (Law Justices and Parliamentary Affairs)
• Women's Parliamentary Caucus

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Legal Guides

• Global Legal Information Catalog: Pakistan (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• Global Legal Monitor: Pakistan (Law Library of Congress)
• Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
• 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)
• Centre for Peace, Development, and Reforms (CPDR)
• FindLaw: Pakistan
• ForIntLaw: Pakistan (Washburn University Law Library)
• Intellectual Property Organisation of Pakistan
• Islamic Family Law: Pakistan (Emory University Law School)
• Judicial Assistance: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan
• Mumtaz & Associates - includes laws
• Pakistan Medical & Dental Council includes statutes, regulations, and guidelines
• Parliamentarians Commision for Human Rights
• 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
• 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 Human Rights Practices: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Economic Briefing: Pakistan (The Economist)
• Embassy of Pakistan, Washington
• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
• Human Rights in Pakistan (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Reports: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
• NATIONAL LIBRARY: National Library of Pakistan
• NEWS: BBC World South Asia
• Pakistan Society of Criminology
• Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York
• U.S. Embassy, lslamabad (U.S. Dept. of State)
• UCB Libraries GovPubs: Pakistan (University of Colorado Boulder)
• World Factbook: Pakistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• World Health Organization: Pakistan
• World Hunger: Pakistan (World Food Programme)
• Yahoo: Pakistan

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: 01/29/2012