Since the late 1970s, aspects of traditional justice have been incorporated in the Pakistan Penal Code, thereby sanctioning homicide of men and women charged with adultery and fornication. In order to analyse the tenuous relationship between jural law and traditional justice, this paper is based ...
Sharia courts implementing the laws ran parallel to the mainstream British-influenced Pakistan Penal Code, and covered adultery, false accusations in court, property crimes and prohibition of drugs and alcohol. Women were not allowed to testify in the most severe cases, involving stonings or amputatio...
The above twitter conversation should give my readers a flavor of how even a good act in Pakistan gets attacked as part of theIslamophobes' intense campaign against all things Pakistan and Muslim. What is often forgotten is that until 1977, the California Penal Code stated that wives charging h...