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India-Pakistan |
Supreme Court judgement |
2015-08-06 |
![]() ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. carnage last December. The judgment itself, nearly a thousand pages long and in two languages, will be closely examined in the days ahead and will have far-reaching implications for a range of issues, from the basic feature/basic structure doctrine to whether future amendments to the Constitution can be challenged in court. None of that, though, will address a two-fold challenge that the country faces as a result of its elected representatives choosing the profoundly undemocratic path of military courts: reforming the criminal justice system on an urgent basis and ensuring that the life of the new military courts is not extended again for any reason whatsoever in 2016, when the sunset clause in the 21st Amendment will go into effect. Unhappily, the law ministry seems uniquely ill-equipped -- even in comparison to the lack of full-time, ministerial leadership and dysfunction in other key ministries such as foreign affairs and defence -- to lead from the front. |
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