Talk:Supreme Court of Pakistan

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A fact from Supreme Court of Pakistan appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 July 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Supreme Court of Pakistan meets in Islamabad?

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Doctrine of Necessity[edit]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan is the only court in the world to give cover to military dictators under its novel law of neccessity theory. The law of necessity was devised by the White Government of Rhodesia under Ian Smith in complete violation of international law. The Supreme Court of Pakistan used the doctrine set by Rhodesia and gave constitutional cover to unconstitutional takeover by military dictators.

The Supreme Court under Pervaiz Musharaff took oath not on the constitution of Pakistan but on a Legal Framework Order made by the military.

The Supreme Court of Pakistan is a front for military dictators throughout Pakistan's history under its novel law of necessity. Its Judges are a joke

Whoever wants to change this should not go back to the Romans, look around and see what other civilized court has such rulings.

Actually, the law of necessity is not novel at all, it's ancient: [1]. To say that the SCP is the 'the only court in the world to give cover to military dictators' is also incorrect and a non-neutral POV. Stanwatch 19:17, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

 Stanwatch read this

This is absolutely not true, why dont you give an example of a court in modern times in a free country that allowed this. If you can find one than I will agree.

It would be helpful if you got a login name, and signed your replies (just put four tildes, like this: ~~~~)

The text claims that the doctrine of necessity is novel. Novel means new. The principle of necessity is not new. For example, Abraham Lincoln wrote,

"I did understand however, that my oath to preserve the constitution to the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that government---that nation---of which that constitution was the organic law.

Was it possible to lose the nation, and yet preserve the constitution? By general law life and limb must be protected; yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures, otherwise unconstitutional, might become lawful, by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the constitution, through the preservation of the nation."

AmeriDesi 08:28, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

played again drama with other actors — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.54.68.85 (talk) 09:52, 30 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Categories[edit]

The article does not mention Karachi but tells us the permanent seat of the Court is at Islamabad. So why Category:Buildings and structures in Karachi? Robin Patterson 13:22, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I guess because a bench of Supreme court sits in City of Karachi as in few other cities. The prime building is in Islamabad as you correctly observed

AT&T iPhone + random article = chaos[edit]

Pass it on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.192.203.183 (talk) 05:23, 9 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Political power[edit]

The article doesn't mention the political might of Supreme Court. Apart of the powerful intelligence services, one of the being ISI, and the military forces, it is the supreme court that sets out the parameter of the military governments, civilian authorities including the media's role. I am not making this up. It is the given fact; Zulfi Bhutto executed by the Supreme Court's order, not by the military. Nawaz Sharif was ousted by the Supreme Court, not by the military. Benazir Bhutto's government came to end by this respected judicial authority. Can someone please write about the Judicial might of this respected apex institution? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.3.145.81 (talk) 06:10, 3 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

History?[edit]

The article as it stands seems biased towards recent events. Someone should add history and any significant cases prior to the 1990s. I tried to soften the language around recent events to reduce bias, but this could use more work. Avory (talk) 22:23, 19 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fuck these judges of Supreme Court spaecially mansoor ali shah and Tariq masood yaha afradi Jamal khan mundokheel and Ather minallah fuck u 72.139.202.217 (talk) 22:08, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]