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The Hudud Ordinances are laws in Pakistan enacted in 1979 as part of the Islamization of Pakistan by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan.It replaced parts of the British-era Pakistan Penal Code, adding new criminal offences of adultery and fornication, and new punishments of whipping, amputation, and stoning to death.
Prisons in Pakistan and their administration, is a Provincial competency under the Constitution of Pakistan. [1] Pakistan has the 23rd largest prison population in the world [ 2 ] and the 5th largest death row population. [ 3 ]
Critics of feudalism have complained of a culture of feudal impunity, where local police will refuse to pursue charges against an influential landowning family even when murder or mayhem have been committed; [6] [8] of abuse of power by some landlords who may place enemies in "private prisons" and "enslave" local people through debt bondage; [1] the harming of progress and prosperity by ...
Law enforcement in Pakistan (Urdu: ادارہ ہائی نفاذِ قانون، پاکستان) is one of the three main components of the criminal justice system of Pakistan, alongside the judiciary and the prisons.
[25] [26] [27] These proposals to make Arabic the state language failed to gain substantial support in any part of Pakistan. [28] However, as this demand is linked to the question of the development of Islamic culture, it indirectly reinforced the demand for the introduction of Arabic script in the state language Urdu and Bengali ( Dobhashi ...
A Sinaloa Cartel kingpin was sentenced to 28 years in prison for shipping heroin, meth and cocaine to Alaska, an increasingly attractive target for drug lords looking to expand their narcotics ...
The current and former Presidents of Pakistan, in keeping with the constitutional provision that the state religion is Islam, must be Muslim. Elected for a five-year term by an Electoral College consisting of members of the Senate and National Assembly and members of the provincial assemblies, the president is eligible for re-election.
The state is closing a major portion of the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, officials announced Tuesday. As part of a string of reductions statewide, the lower-security West Facility ...