CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF PAKISTAN

COURSE CONTENT

• Salient features of the Government of India Act 1935
• Indian Independence Act 1947
• Objectives Resolution, 1949
• Report of the Basic Principles Committee Draft Constitution of 1954
• Salient Feature of the 1956 Constitution
• Constitution Commission of 1960 (Shahabuddin Commission)
• Salient features of the 1962 Constitution
• Abrogation of the Constitutions and the Martial Laws
• Legal Framework Order, 1970
• The Interim Constitutions of 1972
• Fifth and Sixth Constitutional Amendments in the 1973 Constitution
• The PCO of 1981
• HE RCO of 1985
• The Eight Amendments
• THE LFO-2002 and the Seventeenth Amendment, 2003

CASES

• Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan v. Federation of Pakistan PLD 1955 Sindh 96
• Federation of Pakistan vs. Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan
• Reference by the Governor-General PLD 1955 FC 435
• State V. Dosso PLD 1958 SC533
• Usif Patel V. Crown PLD 1955 FC 387
• Begum Nusrat Bhutto v. Chief of the Army Staff PLD 1977 SC657
• Hakim Khan Government of Pakistan PLD 1992 SC 585
• Nawaz Sharif v. President of Pakistan PLD 1993 SC 473
• Benazir Bhutto v. The President of Pakistan PLD 1992 SC 492
• Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, PLD 1988 Lah. 725
• Federation of Pakistan v. Haji Saifullah Khan PLD 1989 SC166
• Khawaja Ahmad Tariq Rahim PLD 1992 SC 646
• Benazir Bhutto v. President of Pakistan. PLD 1998 SC 388
• Asma Jilani v. Government of the Punjab PLD 1972 SC 139
• Mir Hassan…
• State v. Zia ur Rehman PLD 1973 SC 49
• Mahmood Khan Achakzai v. Fed. of Pakistan PLD 1997 SC
• Zafar Ali Shah case, 2000

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

• Constitutional Development of Pakistan by GW Chaudhry
• Constitutional Documents of Pakistan by Safdar Mahmood
• Constitutional and Political History of Pakistan by Hamid Khan
• Book by Justice M. Munir
• Khalid Bin Sayed.