A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN HUDOOD ORDINANCE AND RELEVANT CRIMES UNDER PAKISTAN PENAL CODE

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Adultery Laws of Rape Qazaf Defamation etc

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BASHARAT ULLAH, ADNAN ULLAH KHATTAK, NADAR SHAH, MUHAMMAD SALIS, SHEHNAZ BIBI

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Article 227 of the Constitution of Pakistan requires that laws in Pakistan must be Islamic in nature. Hudood laws were made to meet this constitutional obligation. However, they were objected to from the very inception. Some organizations have stated in their reports from time to time that Hudood laws in Pakistan are grossly unjust and therefore they should be abolished and instead of this, the punishments prescribed earlier under the Penal Code of Pakistan should be reinstated. This article has essentially investigated the narrative of these people that whether the laws prior to Hudood laws met this constitutional requirement. Were Pakistan's Penal Laws better than the Sharia Laws? Moreover, how far is the demand of these groups, to restore the prior punishment under PPC, is valid? For this purpose it is important to compare Hudood laws and penal laws in Pakistan.

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Vol. 11 No. 4 (2023)
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BASHARAT ULLAH, ADNAN ULLAH KHATTAK, NADAR SHAH, MUHAMMAD SALIS, SHEHNAZ BIBI

1BASHARAT ULLAH, 2ADNAN ULLAH KHATTAK,3NADAR SHAH,4MUHAMMAD SALIS, 5SHEHNAZ BIBI

1Subject Specialist (Pakistan Studies) Elementary and Secondary Education, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan)

2Ph.D. Scholar (Islamic Studies) at Qurtaba University, Peshawar

3M.Phil Scholar (Pakistan Studies) at Islamia College University Peshawar

4Subject Specialist (Pakistan Studies) Elementary and Secondary Education, Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

5M.Phil Scholar at Department of Pakistan Studies, Hazara University Mansehra

 

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