Image Source: The News International, the opposition elects Hamza Shahbaz as new CM Punjab, April 06, 2022. After the resignation of the incumbent Chief Minister, Usman Buzdar, on 28 March, 2022, a notification was passed by the Punjab Assembly on the 3rd of April, convening a session for the election of the next Punjab Chief […]
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The Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court found that the Taliban and other armed groups have committed international crimes, more specifically crimes against humanity and war crimes. The Taliban initially emerged in Pakistan in the early 1990s. Their influence in Afghanistan, at first, was limited to the south-western of this country. In 1996,
Image Source: Element5 Digital, [image] (Pexels, 15 January 2020) accessed 5 April 2022. Here is your simplified and unglorified factual and legal explainer about the current Constitutional Crisis happening in Pakistan: The 2018 general elections saw the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) emerge as the largest party, obtaining 149 total seats (increased over the years to 155)
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Image: Mariupol City Council showing a maternity hospital in Mariupol damaged by a Russian strike. Source: BBC News, ’Ukraine war: Three dead as maternity hospital hit by Russian air strike, 10 March 2022 <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60675599> accessed 1st April 2022. Introduction As a world pandemic is coming to an end, the international community is turning its way
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Image source: Kate Lopaze ‘What are the different types of workplace harassment?’ [image] (TheJobNetwork)< https://www.thejobnetwork.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-workplace-harassment/ > accessed 16 March 2022. “Mobbing”, “sending offensive words or images”, “making sarcastic or snide remarks”, “unwanted physical contact”, “abusing a position of power”:[1] these are some examples of harassment definitions from around the world. Manifestations of workplace harassment are
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In 2014, the US Senate Intelligence Committee reported that the CIA had covered up its crimes by making false claims to the US department of justice. To this day, the US government has held no one accountable for the war crimes and serious abuses committed in Afghanistan. The year 2001 marks the launch of the
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The amendment widens the definition of an “aggrieved person” to include, in addition to the natural person (i.e., a living human being), “any company, association or body of persons whether incorporated or not, institution, organization, authority, or any other body established by the Government under any law or otherwise”. [emphasis added] Plainly, this expands the scope of online defamation by allowing both government bodies and the general public to pose as victims of online defamation.
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