Pakistan on Friday adopted an amendment to the colonial-era criminal laws to abolish the punishment for attempted suicide. Pakistan: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is seen.(Reuters) Pakistan's ...

Justice Shahid Karim of the Lahore High Court (LHC) annulled Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) dealing with sedition, the Dawn newspaper reported. A high court in Pakistan on Thursday ...

The provisions of Section 124A of the Pakistan Penal Code referred to as the "sedition law" has recently been invalidated by the Lahore High Court by Justice Shahid Karim. Before the event, Section ...

Senate Standing Committee on Interior on Thursday unanimously passed a bill to amend the Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 and the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 [The Criminal Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2024].

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has declared that if a person commits an offence in a foreign country, which is also an offence under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), they may be tried and convicted ...

Succumbing to the demands of a radical Islamist party, the Pakistan government has agreed to try blasphemy suspects under terrorism charges in addition to the other sections of the country's penal ...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Penal Code is being amended with a view to punish those who profess, practice or propagate a belief contrary to the concept of the finality of prophethood of Mohammad (peace be ...

On Wednesday, Tahir Ahmad Naseem became the latest to be extrajudicially killed for blasphemy in Pakistan. The victim, who had formerly been an Ahmadi before leaving the community, had been under ...

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. University of London law graduate Mariyam Taher Qayyum files this dispatch ...

The "Sedition Law" Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code.. V. Amendments to Laws Under Emergency Rule Ordinance LXVI of 2007 to amend the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 Ordinance LXIX of 2007 to amend the ...