Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides General Sources (includes LC Portals: Pakistan)

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• 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 (Universität Bern Institut für Öffentliches Recht) background information only

EXECUTIVE ARM

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

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

• 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
• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law Legal Issues ) 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

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Pakistan (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• FindLaw: Pakistan
• ForIntLaw: Pakistan (Washburn University Law Library)
• Islamic Family Law: Pakistan (Emory University Law School)
• COURTS AND JUDICIARY 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 Law Index: Pakistan (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: Pakistan (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
• WWW-VL Islamic Law: Pakistan (University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Pakistan () April 1994
• Portals to the World: Pakistan ()
• 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)