Pakistan

Material of national importance

• The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan - with all amendments
• Pakistan's Legislative History - incomplete and under construction

Officially issued material - recent and historical

• Official Specification of the flag of Pakistan - as approved by the Constituent Assembly
• Quaid-e-Azam M. A. Jinnah's presidential address to the Constituent Assembly - August 11, 1947
• President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari's Order of November 5, 1996 dissolving the National Assembly
• Short Order of the Ehtesab Bench of the Lahore High Court convicting Benazir Bhutto and Asif Ali Zardari
• The Lahore Declaration - historic declaration between Pakistan and India made at Lahore on February 21, 1999

Recently added:

Please try out the Pakistan Flood Relief Registry to find and help others find organizations to donate to. Please do what you can to help the victms of this catastrophe in their hour of need.
December 25, 2007	Pakistan Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860) - up-to-date with all amendments. Last amending law: Protection of Women (Criminal Laws Amendment) Act, 2006.
December 15, 2007	Revocation of Proclamation of Emergency Order, 2007 issued revoking the Proclamation of Emergency and Provisional Constitution Order issued on November 3rd, 2007 and restoring the Constitution.
December 14, 2007	Islamabad High Court (Establishment) Order, 2007
December 14, 2007	Constitution (Second Amendment) Order, 2007 issued. Note: The text of the Constitution presented here does not incorporate these amendments yet.
November 21, 2007	Oath of Office (Judges) Order, 2007 (dated November 3, 2007)
November 21, 2007	Constitution (Amendment) Order, 2007 issued to indemnify the Proclamation of Emergency issued on November 3, 2007 and actions taken thereunder and also to establish a High Court in Islamabad. Note: The text of the Constitution presented here does not incorporate these amendments yet.
November 15, 2007	Provisional Constitution (Amendment) Order, 2007 issued. Amends Provisional Constitution Order, 2007.
November 5, 2007	On November 3, 2007, General Pervez Musharraf issued a Proclamation of Emergency and a Provisional Constitution Order. The Constitution is "in abeyance".
October 5, 2007	National Reconciliation Ordinance, 2007
July 20, 2007	The thirteen-member bench of the Supreme Court has set aside the Presidential reference against the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and declared invalid the presidential action sending the Chief Justice on forced leave. The Chief Justice has been reinstated in office. Text of Short Order
June 25, 2007	Timeline and documents related to the Presidential Reference against the Chief Justice.
June 24, 2007	President to Hold Another Office Act, 2004. - allows President Musharraf to continue to hold the office of Chief of Army Staff in his current term as President.

DISCLAIMER: The public material presented here is taken from various sources as it becomes available. It is presented without any bias to, or interpretation of, the contents whatsoever. I would be grateful for any help anyone can provide in obtaining other such public material of national importance to Pakistan in order to aid intellectual discourse and debate.