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Law of PakistanPakistan
A federal parliamentary republic with a written Constitution, a common-law inheritance from British India, an Islamic constitutional layer with a Federal Shariat Court and a Council of Islamic Ideology, provinces that make most of the rules on land and labour since 2010, personal laws that differ by community, and a land system in which a registered deed, not a revenue entry, carries title. How the system works, how to live, work and buy there, and what the courts decide. Free articles, organized by subject, growing every week.
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Who This Page Is For
This portal collects material on Pakistani law, a common-law system with a written federal Constitution (1973) and an Islamic constitutional layer: the colonial codes (the Penal Code, the Contract Act, the Code of Civil Procedure) are still in force in amended form, fundamental rights are enforced by the superior courts, provincial law governs land, labour and much else, and personal laws differ by religion and community. It is written for readers who visit, live, work, study, buy property or do business in Pakistan, for Pakistanis who want to understand their own legal system, and for anyone comparing legal systems, and it explains laws, institutions and procedures without giving legal advice or opinions on individual cases. Laws change, and the highest courts were reshaped by constitutional amendments in 2024 and 2025. Everywhere else on this site, content reflects US law unless a page says otherwise.
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Pakistani Law
A first course in Pakistani law: the legacy of the Mughal courts and British India and the Constitution of 1973, the Objectives Resolution and the Islamic provisions, the President and the Prime Minister and the two Houses of Parliament, federalism and the provinces after the Eighteenth Amendment and local government, the Supreme Court and the Federal Constitutional Court and the High Courts and the Federal Shariat Court and the legal profession, fundamental rights and citizenship and administrative law, contract and land records and the registered deed and family law and inheritance, companies under the Companies Act 2017 and provincial labour law and tax, and criminal procedure and qisas and diyat and cybercrime and arbitration.
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Legal documents
31 legal documents in English
Leases, loan and sale agreements, powers of attorney, family documents, letters and more, ready to fill in and sign, in English, with the English translation alongside for the other party. PDF and Word. 6 € for a document in the language, 9 € with the English translation. Included in the individual All-Access plan, in the language you choose.
- • Residential Lease Agreement
- • Freelance Services Agreement
- • Loan Agreement
- • Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)
- • Sale Agreement for Movable Goods (including a used vehicle)
- • Parental Consent for a Child to Travel Abroad
These are general templates for use in any country, each with a ‘check in your country’ list. They are not drafted under Pakistan law, and they are not legal advice.
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The Common Law Tradition
Where Pakistani contract, tort and procedure come from and what they share with England, India, Malaysia, Nigeria and the other legal systems of the common law world: the king’s courts, precedent, equity and the adversarial trial.
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