INTRODUCTION PAKISTAN’S FOREIGN POLICY towards Afghanistan during the last seventy nine years has been through various changes due to the international conditions, changing positions of power and changing calculations of strategies. Since the beginning of the fight over the Durand Line, the Cold War, proxy wars in the Soviet-Afghan war, and Taliban regime support, post-9/11…
BRIEF FACTS OF THE CASE The controversy in the case is concerning a claim for recovery of maintenance allowance made by Esha Rani (also known as Esha Bibi) against the petitioner, Muhammad Afzal, alleging she is his biological daughter. From the record, Maryam Zahid, the mother of Esha Rani, claimed to have been raped by…
The Supreme Court of Pakistan’s early verdict in Constitution Petitions Nos. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, and 35 of 2023, holding certain provisions of the Pakistan Army Act, 1952 as ultra vires to the Constitution, was a giant step to affirming the supremacy of the Constitution and protecting fundamental rights. This judgment, passed by…
