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Pakistan
Islamic Republic of Pakistan / Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan



CONSTITUTION

* Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Shehzaad Nakhoda) includes the suspended April 10, 1973 constitution and links to current provisional constitutional orders; in English
* Constitutional Orders (Pakistan) includes provisional constitutional orders and other documents
* International Constitutional Law: Pakistan (Universitât Bern Institut f?r ˜ffentliches Recht) background information only

EXECUTIVE

* Islamic Republic of Pakistan - official home page
* President
* Federal Ministers
* Ministry of Foreign Affairs

JUDICIAL

* Supreme Court
* Lahore High Court
* Judiciary Branch

LEGISLATIVE

* PARLIAMENT: Dissolved in 1999; Majlis-e-Shoora [Parliament] consisted of the Senate and National Assembly
* Pakistan Law Commission
* GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers 11 searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations issued from January 2005 to March 2006
* Pakistan's Legislative History (Stanford University)
* NATLEX: Pakistan (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights


LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

* GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
* Multinational Collections Database: Pakistan (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
* AsianLII: Pakistan (Asian Legal Information Institute)
* FindLaw: Pakistan
* ForIntLaw: Pakistan (Washburn University Law Library)
* Islamic Family Law: Pakistan (Emory University Law School)
* Judicial Assistance: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
* JURIST: Pakistan (University of Pittsburgh School of Law)
* Legal Research Guide to Pakistan (Omar Sial and Sahar Iqbal, via GlobaLex) November 2005
* World Legal Information Institute: Pakistan (WorldLII)
* World Legal Materials from Asia: Pakistan (Cornell Legal Information Institute)


GENERAL SOURCES

* Country Study: Pakistan (Library of Congress) April 1994
* Portals to the World: Pakistan (Library of Congress)
* Background Notes: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Pakistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
* Consular Information Sheet: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Country Information: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Country Profile of Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of Labor) from By The Sweat and Toil of Children: A Report to Congress, Volume I (July 15, 1994)
* Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices, 1993-2001 (U.S. Dept. of State) see reports listed under South Asia
* Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
* Economic Briefing: Pakistan (The Economist)
* Embassy of Pakistan, Washington
* Governments on the WWW: Pakistan (Gunnar Anzinger)
* Human Rights in Pakistan (Amnesty International)
* International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: Pakistan (U.S. Dept. of State)
* NATIONAL LIBRARY: Pakistan Library Network
* NEWS: BBC World South Asia
* Permanent Mission of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York
* U.S. Embassy, lslamabad (U.S. Dept. of State)
* World Factbook: Pakistan (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
* World Hunger: Pakistan (World Food Programme)
* WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Pakistan (Google); Pakistan (University of Michigan) Pakistan (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Pakistan (Australian National University)