The Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Act, 2006 – A Challenge to the ‘Divine Sanction’ in Pakistan?
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Ali, Shaheen Sardar (2007) Interpretative strategies for women’s human rights in a plural legal framework: Exploring judicial and state responses to Hudood laws in
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Bari, Farzana (2006) Politics of the Hudood Ordinance, The Daily News, 1 Oct 2006.
Bari, Farzana (2004) the Politics of Hudood. The News 12-10-2004
Chadbourne, Julie Dror (2001) Never your Shoes after Midnight: Legal Trends Under Pakistan Zina Ordinance, Pakistan Law Review, Vol 1, Number 1, pp 3-103.
Cheema, Moeen H (2006) Is pregnancy proof of Zina? Daily Time, 14 Oct. Justice Majida Rizvi Interview (2008) July 2008 Herald.
Jahangir, Asma (2006a) What the Protection of Women Act does and what is left undone, In: State of Human Rights in 2006, Human Rights in 2006, Human Rights
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Jahangir, Asma (2006b) Why blame the MMA? Daily Times, 6th September 2006.
Jahangir, Asma. And H. Jilani (1990) The Hodood Ordinance: a divine sanction? Rohtas books, Lahore. 30 See also Jilani (1992)
Jilani, Hina (1992) Whose Laws? Human Rights and Violence Against Women in Pakistan, In: Freedom from Violence, Women’s Strategies from Around the
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Mehdi, Rubya (1994) The Islamization of the law in Pakistan, Curzon, Richmond.
Mehdi, Rubya (1990) The offence of rape in the Islamic law of Pakistan. International
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Mumtaz, Khawar and Farida Shaheed (1987) Women of Pakistan, Zed Books Ltd, London.
Peteres, Rudolph (2005) Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and practice from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, Cambridge University Press.
Quraishi, Asifa (1997) Her Honor: An Islamic Critique of the Rape Laws of Pakistan from a Woman-Sensitive Perspective, Michigan Journal of International Law,
Vol. 18, No. 2, 287-320.
Rehman, I.A. (2006) Drama over Hudood laws, The Daily Dawn.
The Council of Islamic Ideology (2007) Hudood Ordinance 1979, A Critical Report: Government of Pakistan.
Cases:
Abdul Majeed v. Ghulam Yaseen 1997 PCrLJ 896 (Federal Shariat Court)
Asghar Ali v. The State 1996 PCrLJ 1678
Ayoob and 8 Other v. The State (PLD 1999 Lah 494)
Lubna and others v. Government of Punjab (PLD 1997 Lah 180)
Lala v. The State PLD 1987 SC 414 (Shariat Appellate Bench)
Major Nasir Mehmood and anoter v. State and 9 others 2002 PCrLJ Lah 408
Qaiser Mehmood v M Shafi and another (PLD 1998 Lah 72).
Rashid Ahmed v. The State PLD 1996 PCrLJ 612
Safia Bibi v The State PLD 1985 FSC 120,
Safia Bibi v The State PLD 1986 SC 132.
Sakina v. The State FSC
Mst. Zafran Bibi v The State PLD 2002 FSC 1.
Legislation
The Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance 1979
The Offence of Qadfh (Enforcement of hadd) Ordinance 1979
The Protection of Women Act 2006
The Prevention of Domestic Violence Bill, 2009
Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, 2009
Pakistan In Anne Hellum, Julie Stewart, Shaheen Sardar Ali and Amy Tsanga (eds.) Human rights, plural legalities and gendered realities: paths are made by walking, Published by Sourthern and Eastern African Regional Centre for Women’s Law (SEARCWL).
Bari, Farzana (2006) Politics of the Hudood Ordinance, The Daily News, 1 Oct 2006.
Bari, Farzana (2004) the Politics of Hudood. The News 12-10-2004
Chadbourne, Julie Dror (2001) Never your Shoes after Midnight: Legal Trends Under Pakistan Zina Ordinance, Pakistan Law Review, Vol 1, Number 1, pp 3-103.
Cheema, Moeen H (2006) Is pregnancy proof of Zina? Daily Time, 14 Oct. Justice Majida Rizvi Interview (2008) July 2008 Herald.
Jahangir, Asma (2006a) What the Protection of Women Act does and what is left undone, In: State of Human Rights in 2006, Human Rights in 2006, Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan.
Jahangir, Asma (2006b) Why blame the MMA? Daily Times, 6th September 2006.
Jahangir, Asma. And H. Jilani (1990) The Hodood Ordinance: a divine sanction? Rohtas books, Lahore. 30 See also Jilani (1992)
Jilani, Hina (1992) Whose Laws? Human Rights and Violence Against Women in Pakistan, In: Freedom from Violence, Women’s Strategies from Around the
World 63, 72 (Margaret Schuler ed.,).
Mehdi, Rubya (1994) The Islamization of the law in Pakistan, Curzon, Richmond.
Mehdi, Rubya (1990) The offence of rape in the Islamic law of Pakistan. International
Journal of the Sociology of Law. Vol 18, Number 1, February.
Mumtaz, Khawar and Farida Shaheed (1987) Women of Pakistan, Zed Books Ltd, London.
Peteres, Rudolph (2005) Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law: Theory and practice from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, Cambridge University Press.
Quraishi, Asifa (1997) Her Honor: An Islamic Critique of the Rape Laws of Pakistan from a Woman-Sensitive Perspective, Michigan Journal of International Law,
Vol. 18, No. 2, 287-320.
Rehman, I.A. (2006) Drama over Hudood laws, The Daily Dawn.
The Council of Islamic Ideology (2007) Hudood Ordinance 1979, A Critical Report: Government of Pakistan.
Cases:
Abdul Majeed v. Ghulam Yaseen 1997 PCrLJ 896 (Federal Shariat Court)
Asghar Ali v. The State 1996 PCrLJ 1678
Ayoob and 8 Other v. The State (PLD 1999 Lah 494)
Lubna and others v. Government of Punjab (PLD 1997 Lah 180)
Lala v. The State PLD 1987 SC 414 (Shariat Appellate Bench)
Major Nasir Mehmood and anoter v. State and 9 others 2002 PCrLJ Lah 408
Qaiser Mehmood v M Shafi and another (PLD 1998 Lah 72).
Rashid Ahmed v. The State PLD 1996 PCrLJ 612
Safia Bibi v The State PLD 1985 FSC 120,
Safia Bibi v The State PLD 1986 SC 132.
Sakina v. The State FSC
Mst. Zafran Bibi v The State PLD 2002 FSC 1.
Legislation
The Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance 1979
The Offence of Qadfh (Enforcement of hadd) Ordinance 1979
The Protection of Women Act 2006
The Prevention of Domestic Violence Bill, 2009
Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act, 2009
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Mehdi, R., & Khan Niazi, A. A. (2015). The Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Act, 2006 – A Challenge to the ‘Divine Sanction’ in Pakistan?. NAVEIÑ REET: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research, (1), 58–72. https://doi.org/10.7146/nnjlsr.v0i1.111133
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