PFUJ calls for nationwide protest against legal amendments targeting 'fake news'
The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Friday called for further expansion of its nationwide protests against recent amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 (PECA). The group organized the protest against the PECA amendment on January 27. Video footage on X (formerly Twitter) showed Pakistani journalists protesting by chaining themselves in [...]
Military Justice v. Civil Rights: Pakistan's Legal Battle Intensifies
With the sun of 2024 having scattered the last of its rays on Earth, it feels like freedom, independence and justice will soon be engulfed by darkness in Pakistan. Today, we find ourselves mired in a troubling quagmire of lawlessness and a hogtied judicial system. On Dec. 21, military courts in Pakistan sentenced 25 civilians [...]
Pakistan dispatch: Imran Khan protests called off after bloody government crackdown in Islamabad
Rabia Shuja holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Griffith College, Dublin and is Chief Correspondent for JURIST in Pakistan. She reports from Islamabad. On Wednesday, Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party announced that it was calling off its protest in light of what it described as the government’s plan to turn the [...]
Abu Bakar Khan and Noor Ul Huda are JURIST staff correspondents in Pakistan and recent graduates of Punjab University Law College. They filed this dispatch from Lahore. On November 13, Imran Khan, the incarcerated ex-prime minister of Pakistan and the party leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), issued a “final call” for nationwide protests scheduled for [...]
Noor Ul Huda is a JURIST staff correspondent in Pakistan and a recent graduate of Punjab University Law College. She files this dispatch from Lahore. Lahore, Pakistan’s second-largest city with a population exceeding 13 million and the city where I live, is currently facing a recurring smog crisis — a situation aggravated by factors like [...]
Islamist party leader arrested for bounty on Pakistan chief justice
Pakistan’s police on Monday announced the arrest of the deputy leader of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) party, Zaheerul Hassan Shah, for placing a bounty against Chief Justice of the Pakistan Qazi Faez Esa, according to local media. Hassan Shah placed the 10-million rupee bounty against Esa because of the Chief Justice’s alleged support of the minority [...]
Pakistan dispatch: Supreme Court verdict on reserved seats will be pivotal for Pakistan's democracy
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 final year law student at University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this dispatch from Lahore. All eyes are now fixed on the Supreme Court of Pakistan to [...]
Pakistan journalists challenge Punjab defamation act in Lahore High Court
Journalists challenged the Punjab Defamation Law, 2024 the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday, branding it “unconstitutional, unlawful, and against the principles of the law,” according to reports in Pakistani media. This move comes just weeks after the Punjab Assembly passed the bill amid fierce opposition and protests from journalists and civil society groups. The [...]
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 final year law student at University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this dispatch from Lahore. Lahore hosted the 5th Asma Jahangir Conference, titled ‘People’s Mandate: Safeguarding Civil [...]
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Saturday set aside a Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) decision suspending the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) earlier order against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s (PTI) that revoked the party’s bat election symbol. This means that PTI will not be able to use their iconic bat symbol. PTI, which is led by former prime minister [...]
