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  • Pakistan and Human Rights

    by Satvinder Juss, Yasser Latif Hamdani, Neha Ali Gauhar, Adrija Ghosh, Waris Husain, Marva Khan, Muhammad Khan, Reema Omer, Javaid Rehman, Adnan Sattar0, Maleeha Sattar1, Uzair J. Kayani2 ...
    Pakistan and Human Rights consists of a series of innovative and carefully chosen chapters by leading experts and specialists in the field of human rights law. With contributions from young emerging scholars, many of whom live and work in Pakistan, this volume takes a critical look at the legal ordering of human rights issues in Pakistan today. ... Read more

    $102.99 USD

  • The Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan

    A Comparative Study of Judicial Restraint and its Development in India, the US and Pakistan

    by Waris Husain ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Since 2007, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a dominant force in Pakistani politics through its hyper-active use of judicial review, or the power to overrule Parliament’s laws and the Prime Minister’s acts. This hyper-activism was on display during the Supreme Court’s unilateral disqualification of Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani in 2012 under the leadership of Chief Justice Iftikhar ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Slavery and Slaving in African History

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