ISLAMABAD: The government has proposed amendments in four key provisions of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) of 1860 – a move which could resolve the longstanding issue of murderers pardoned by the heir ...

Before he somehow dodged the terror of Cromwell, Matthew Hale, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench, put down a list of “Things Necessary” to be remembered as ...

The level of violence against women is frighteningly high in Pakistan. Women are killed, maimed, brutally tortured, raped and persecuted to perpetuate patriarchal societal norms, and now in these ...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court gave a conclusive judgment on Thursday, ending once and for all the confusion between Qisas and Ta’zir in cases of murder. The law providing for Qisas, which in Islamic ...

On September 13, 2013, the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan, during the hearing of a 2004 murder case in which a compromise had been reached, said that it may form a larger bench on the increase of the ...

As the government fixes a considerably low new value of Diyat for the coming financial year, it is perhaps time to revisit the country’s problematic Qisas & Diyat laws On July 9, 2014 the federal ...

The execution of Nimisha Priya – the Indian nurse sentenced to death in Yemen – has been postponed, for now. But the brief reprieve does little to change the fundamental reality of her situation: her ...

Amid mounting unpredictability over the fate of Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya, who is on a death row in Yemen due to the alleged murder of a Yemeni national, Talal Abdo Mahdi, two Islamic laws, 'Qisas', ...

IN case after case of murder and severe bodily harm to innocent people, the perpetrators are often given a clean chit by Pakistan’s courts. The accused, even more emboldened, returns to society with ...