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• Introduction
• Rebirth
• Betrayal
• Sin
• Transgression
• Punishment
• Redemption
• Conclusion

"Uncovers the hidden stories behind Pakistan's fixation with blasphemy--tales of revenge, political scheming and sovereign betrayal. Hussain's account opens in nineteenth-century colonial Punjab and traces blasphemy killings to the present, linking their emergence to polemic encounters between Hindu and Muslim revivalist sects, namely the Arya Samaj and the Ahmadiyya. It offers, for the first time, the arresting backstories to the assassinations of Pandit Lekh Ram, a leading Hindu nationalist; Swami Shraddhanand, an early progenitor of Hindu nationalism and the principal advocate for converting Muslims; and Rajpal, the Hindu publisher of a sensationalist book on the Prophet Muhammad. Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan then maps the curious afterlives of these killings, illuminating the most critical moments in Pakistan's history: 1953, when outraged protestors smashed stores owned by religious minorities, triggering the country's first state of emergency; 1974, when Islamist parties pressured Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to put blasphemy on the constitutional agenda; 1984, when Zia-ul-Haq transformed Pakistan according to his Islamist vision, which included more severe punishments for blasphemy; and the twenty-first century, when digital media has dramatically increased the visibility of blasphemy killings, prompting political parties to demonstrate their commitment to the cause."-- Provided by publisher

• Pakistan : a brief history
• Blasphemy in Pakistan
• The Christians of Pakistan
• Blasphemy and freedom of expression
• Blasphemy and other human rights violations
• Freedom of expression in a changing world

This book discusses the legislative, sociological and political aspects of the human rights to expression in Pakistan, with specific regard to Pakistan's blasphemy legislation. This book explores the violation of international human rights norms inherent in Pakistan's blasphemy laws, in particular, norms found in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Weaving in the personal narratives of ordinary people, priests, pastors, layers and human rights organisations, this book examines the impact and pernicious use of blasphemy laws on the Christians of Pakistan

On the rules of inheritance in Islam

On how to write wills according to Islamic law

• 1. Judiciary, Rule of Law and the Military
• 2. The Loyal Court (1947-1977)
• 3. The Controlled Court (1977-1999)
• 4. Between the Barracks and the Bar (1977-1999: Part 2)
• 5. The Confrontational Court (1999-2017)
• 6. Epilogue: A Judiciary Fragmenting?
• 7. Conclusion and Comparative Perspectives
• Appendix Structure of Pakistani Judiciary.
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The emergence of the judiciary as an assertive and confrontational center of power has been the most consequential new feature of Pakistan's political system. This book maps out the evolution of the relationship between the judiciary and military in Pakistan, explaining why Pakistan's high courts shifted from loyal deference to the military to open competition, and confrontation, with military and civilian institutions. Yasser Kureshi demonstrates that a shift in the audiences shaping judicial preferences explains the emergence of the judiciary as an assertive power center. As the judiciary gradually embraced less deferential institutional preferences, a shift in judicial preferences took place and the judiciary sought to play a more expansive and authoritative political role. Using this audience-based approach, Kureshi roots the judiciary in its political, social and institutional context, and develops a generalizable framework that can explain variation and change in judicial-military relations around the world.
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• 1. Judiciary, Rule of Law and the Military
• 2. The Loyal Court (1947-1977)
• 3. The Controlled Court (1977-1999)
• 4. Between the Barracks and the Bar (1977-1999: Part 2)
• 5. The Confrontational Court (1999-2017)
• 6. Epilogue: A Judiciary Fragmenting?
• 7. Conclusion and Comparative Perspectives
• Appendix Structure of Pakistani Judiciary.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The emergence of the judiciary as an assertive and confrontational center of power has been the most consequential new feature of Pakistan's political system. This book maps out the evolution of the relationship between the judiciary and military in Pakistan, explaining why Pakistan's high courts shifted from loyal deference to the military to open competition, and confrontation, with military and civilian institutions. Yasser Kureshi demonstrates that a shift in the audiences shaping judicial preferences explains the emergence of the judiciary as an assertive power center. As the judiciary gradually embraced less deferential institutional preferences, a shift in judicial preferences took place and the judiciary sought to play a more expansive and authoritative political role. Using this audience-based approach, Kureshi roots the judiciary in its political, social and institutional context, and develops a generalizable framework that can explain variation and change in judicial-military relations around the world.
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Research and analytical study of Ahmadiyya sect, declared as non-Muslim minority in Pakistan; includes Pakistani courts decisions from 1981 to 1999

• Introduction - Transnational Law and Advocacy around Labour and Human Rights Litigation.- Part 1: The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire and its aftermath - Litigations, campaigning and transnational collaboration
• Loss and Legibility - A conversation with Saeeda Khatoon.- Legal Interventions and Transnational Alliances in the Ali Enterprises Case - Struggles for Workers' Rights in Global Supply Chains.- Paradoxes of Strategic Labour Rights Litigation: Insights from the Baldia Factory Fire Litigation.- After the Ali Enterprises fire: Occupational safety and health and workers' organising - A conversation with Zehra Khan about current and future struggles.- Pakistan's "Industrial 9/11" - Transnational rights-based activism in the garment industry and creating space for future global struggles.- The Land of Mourning - A conversation with Adeela Suleman.- Four against KiK - A conversation with Caspar Dohmen.- Part 2: Labour and Tort Law Aspects of Global Supply Chains.- The Rana Plaza collapse and the case for Enforceable Agreements with Apparel Brands.- Trade Union Approaches to Global Value Chains - The Indonesian Experience.- Transnational labour law? "Corporate social responsibility" and the Law.- Tort Law and Human Rights. - Part 3: Critical Perspectives on Law and Litigation.- Confined Employment: Exploring Labor Marginalization in Workplace Safety.- The KiK case: A critical perspective from the South.- From Strategic Litigation to Juridical Action.- Toward a Strategic Engagement with the Question of the Corporation: A Critique of Business and Human Rights. .
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This open access book documents and analyses the various interventions - legal, political, and even artistic - that followed the Ali Enterprises factory fire in Karachi, Pakistan, in 2012. It illuminates the different substantive and procedural aspects of the legal proceedings and negotiations between the various local and transnational actors implicated in the Ali Enterprises fire, as well as the legal and policy reforms sparked by the incident. This endeavour serves to embed these legal cases and reform efforts in the larger context of human and labour rights protection and global value chain governance. It also offers a concrete case study relevant for ongoing debates around the role of transnational approaches in making human rights litigation, advocacy, and law reform more effective. In this regard, the book interrogates and critically reflects on such legal campaigns and local and transnational reform work with a view to future transformative legal and social activism. .
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Postcolonial legality: fragments of the rule of law and constitutionalism
• 3. Martial rule: military-bureaucratic authoritarianism and 'basic' constitutionalism
• 4. Elective dictatorship: socialist populism and the myth of a consensus constitution
• 5. Praetorian governmentality: Islamisation of laws and the genesis of substantive constitutionalism
• 6. Indirect praetorianism: 'public interest litigation' and the first wave of judicial activism
• 7. Military-civil composite: 'military incorporated' and the 'lawyers' movement'
• 8. Corporatist governance: the 'Chaudhry court' and 'judicial proactivism'
• 9. Conclusion: judicialisation of politics in Pakistan.
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Over the last decade, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a powerful and overtly political institution. While the strong form of judicial review adopted by the Supreme Court has fostered the perception of a sudden and ahistorical judicialisation of politics, the judiciary's prominent role in adjudicating issues of governance and statecraft was long in the making. This book presents a deeply contextualised account of law in Pakistan and situates the judicial review jurisprudence of the superior courts in the context of historical developments in constitutional politics, evolution of state structures and broader social transformations. This book highlights that the bedrock of judicial review has remained in administrative law; it is through the consistent development of the 'Writ jurisdiction' and the judicial review of administrative action that Pakistan's superior courts have progressively carved an expansive institutional role and aggrandised themselves to the status of the regulator of the state.
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This book covers the study of the Islamic law of succession, intestate as well as testamentary. Based on original sources, it includes the historical and theological basis of law developed by the Muslim schools of jurisprudence. The book explains clearly the Sunni and Shia law of inheritance. The points of view of all four Sunni schools of jurisprudence have been discussed in depth wherever there is divergence of opinion amongst the jurists of these schools. The author presents a comparative study between the Sunni and Shia laws of inheritance and focusses on problems being faced by Muslims, due to the strict application of traditional Islamic law in their contemporary situations. These problems have been analyzed in the light of various reforms introduced by Islamic countries to resolve such issues. The second edition includes the latest case law laid down by the superior courts in Pakistan and the latest reforms introduced by the Islamic countries have also been included in this edition. This book is an essential component of the course on 'Muslim Personal Law' for LL.B. students and the course on 'Islamic Law' for LL.M. students. It will also be of great interest to lawyers, judges, law teachers, law students, civil servants and revenue officers and the general reader and students of Islam.
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Proceedings of the National Assembly of Pakistan during which the Government of Pakistan declared Ahmadiyya as non-Muslims in 1974

Court statements of the author, an army official during his trial on alleged charges of conspiracy during the regime of Benazir Bhutto, ex-Prime minister of Pakistan in 1994

Customary law followed in two tehsils of Montgomery District, Pakistan

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto speeches in the Supreme Court of Pakistan during his trial from 18-21 December, 1978

Autobiography of Kh. Mohammad Sharief; former Chief Justice of Lahore High Court

Need to implement Islamic law in Pakistan, according to Koran and Hadith

• Pre-partition constitutional and political history
• Constitutional and political developments : August 1947 to October 1958
• The Ayub regime : October 1958 to March 1969
• The Yahya regime : March 1969 to December 1971
• The Bhutto government : December 1971 to July 1977
• The Zia regime : July 1977 to August 1988
• Post-Zia civilian governments : August 1988 to October 1999
• The Musharraf regime : October 1999 onwards to August 2008
• The Zardari government : September 2008 to September 2013
• Constitutional and political issues in Pakistan

It has been seven decades since the independent state of Pakistan was carved out of British India, yet the country is still in pursuit of a suitable constitutional framework. Over this period of time, no other country has experimented with so many different constitutional forms, from parliamentary democracy to presidential form of government, to outright military regimes. This book analyses constitutional development in Pakistan from its inception to present times. It provides a case-by-case account of constitution-making in Pakistan, with the inclusion of all pertinent documentation. Constitutional developments have been explained in the context of social and political events that shaped them. The book focuses on constitutional and political history, and constitutional development concurrently. It includes a liberal humanitarian reading of the travails of lawmakers and the role of generals, judges, politicians, and bureaucrats in the implementation of law. Students of law, political science, and history, as well as lawyers, judges, and professors will find this book of particular value. Being grounded in a socio-political context, this book is also of interest to the general reader. The third edition is updated to cover the constitutional and political developments up until 2013.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Postcolonial legality: fragments of the rule of law and constitutionalism
• 3. Martial rule: military-bureaucratic authoritarianism and 'basic' constitutionalism
• 4. Elective dictatorship: socialist populism and the myth of a consensus constitution
• 5. Praetorian governmentality: Islamisation of laws and the genesis of substantive constitutionalism
• 6. Indirect praetorianism: 'public interest litigation' and the first wave of judicial activism
• 7. Military-civil composite: 'military incorporated' and the 'lawyers' movement'
• 8. Corporatist governance: the 'Chaudhry court' and 'judicial proactivism'
• 9. Conclusion: judicialisation of politics in Pakistan.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Over the last decade, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a powerful and overtly political institution. While the strong form of judicial review adopted by the Supreme Court has fostered the perception of a sudden and ahistorical judicialisation of politics, the judiciary's prominent role in adjudicating issues of governance and statecraft was long in the making. This book presents a deeply contextualised account of law in Pakistan and situates the judicial review jurisprudence of the superior courts in the context of historical developments in constitutional politics, evolution of state structures and broader social transformations. This book highlights that the bedrock of judicial review has remained in administrative law; it is through the consistent development of the 'Writ jurisdiction' and the judicial review of administrative action that Pakistan's superior courts have progressively carved an expansive institutional role and aggrandised themselves to the status of the regulator of the state.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)