The website of Pakistani law firm Jamil and Jamil provides a large collection of Pakistani legislation (under ‘Publications’). Acts, ordinances and some rules and regulations are available; they are arranged by subject under about thirty different headings, including Companies, Commercial, Intellectual Property, Family, Property, Labour and Tort.
Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court was established in 1980. Its website provides a database of judgments from about 2004 onwards; there is also a page devoted to leading cases, including full-text judgments, brief details of criminal cases from 1980 onwards and summaries of shariat petitions from 1980 onwards. The site gives an overview of the Court’s jurisdiction and lists the judges. It also provides cause lists, court rules, annual reports, statistics, four digitised books and a few articles. The site is almost wholly in English, but the articles are only in Arabic.
Islamabad High Court was established in 2010, covering the Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan. Its website provides selected judgments, cause lists and rules. Information about the Court’s history and profiles of the judges are also given along with a comprehensive list of links to Pakistan legal resources.
High Court for the province of Peshawar, Pakistan. Its website provides judgments from about 2010 onwards, together with cause lists, information about the Court’s history and lists of judges. There is also a directory of the Peshawar district courts and a list of special courts.
Website of the High Court for the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Provides a database of more than 25,000 judgments and orders. Also makes available cause lists, an explanation of the Court’s jurisdiction and lists of judges. The site also has a set of links to Pakistani law websites.
High Court for the province of Balochistan, Pakistan. The Court's website provides judgments from around 2010 onwards, together with cause lists, information about the Court’s history, an overview of its jurisdiction and lists of judges.
Small collection of Pakistani acts, orders, ordinances and other legal instruments, past and present, arranged mostly by year., on the Pakistani.org website. The site is run by California-based software engineer and entrepreneur Shehzaad Nakhoda.
An unofficial version of Pakistan’s Constitution that is regularly updated, with the latest amendments noted on the front page. Amendments to the Constitution since its inception are also noted in the sections that have been changed, with details on the changes.
Part of WorldLII's Countries service containing links to internet resources for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. A full range of browse and search features is provided by the site. Browse sections include links covering Pakistan's Courts, Education, Government, Lawyers, Legislation and Parliament. Additional sections highlight subject areas such as Capital Markets, Foreign Investment, Human Rights, Insolvency and Bankruptcy, Intellectual Property, Privatisation and Taxation Revenue and Customs.
Online guide to researching Pakistan law, by Omar Sial of Pakistan law firm Omar Sial & Associates. The research guide was published in 2005 (and updated in 2023) on the Globalex website, which is run by the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University. There is an introduction providing background and historical information to Pakistan, its constitutional development and the constitutional status of Islamic law. The structure of government, the law making process and the court system are also explained.
