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PCL Photography Competition 2015-16: Many Forms…
Several high standard photographs were submitted this year to the 2nd PCL Photography Competition, 2015-16. Many of the entrants also…
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Every Picture Tells A Thousand Stories
A photography competition was recently conducted by Pakistan College of Law in which 15 students enthusiastically submitted a total of…
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Appreciation of the Significance of Diversity
The following piece has been originally published by Peter Quinn on London Connection, the online magazine of the University of…
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Interview: Anwaar Hussain
Mr. Anwaar Hussain has been teaching at PCL for a number of years as a visiting Associate Professor, and has…
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Young lawyer’s road towards being elected leader of the house in Youth Parliament of Pakistan
Youth Parliaments are mock parliaments, organized in many democratic countries including England, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Its main purpose is to develop values and culture of democracy, politics and leadership in the young. The inspiration behind youth parliaments, in my humble opinion, can be traced to Plato, who propounded that lack of interest in…
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Illiteracy: A Major Issue
What is illiteracy? Literacy is the ability to read and write; while Illiteracy is the inability to read and write or the lack of knowledge can be called ignorance. Why is it the major issue in Pakistan? With a population of around 170 million it is referred as one of the illiterate countries of…
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An Assessment of the Punjab Transparency and Right to Information Act, 2013
Democracy and accountability are sine qua non for each other. Foremost pre-requisite for a functional accountability mechanism is access to information. In Article 19-A of Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 the Constitution recognises right to information as a fundamental human right. To translate constitutional law into reality, Government of Punjab enacted the…
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Humanitarian Aid Projects, Colonial Legacy and the Experience of the Internally Displaced in Sudan
In the political economy of development, and more specifically second generation of conditionalities imposed by aid donors, human rights and rule of law have come to the forefront and have been promoted as ideals for improving the governance in developing countries. Hence, ideas for improving achieving better governance have become central to aid-donor-recipient relations (Burnell…
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PCL Photography Competition 2015-16: Many Forms of Courage
Several high standard photographs were submitted this year to the 2nd PCL Photography Competition, 2015-16. Many of the entrants also sent mini-write ups to explain how their photo entry reflected the theme of courage. The permanent faculty of the College judged the entries and declared Saad Saleem Chohan from B.A Year 2 to be the…
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محبت چھوڑ دینے پر دلوں کو توڑ دینے پر زیست برباد کرنے پر تعلق ترک کرنے پر کسی کو بھول جانے پر کسی کو چھوڑ جانے پر !عجب دستور ہے صاحب کوئی فتوٰی نہیں لگتا کہ کسی کی یاد آنے پر کسی پر کیا گزرتی ہے کسی کی سانس رُکتی ہے کسی کو یاد بھی …
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Women Protection or a Familial Breakdown?
While I was patiently substituting for my sister in Lahore College for Women University front of the Head of Department of Education so that she may guide me for the Phd programme, I overheard her advise one of her junior staff member, a woman aged between 25-28 in urdu “mujhe lagta hy tmhare sir py…
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Why B.A?
With the start of a new year we all either tend to make resolutions or laugh at how we’ll never adhere to them. So this year, I decided to do something new, it is a new year after all. I decided to look back at the previous year and remember all the good and bad…
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Interview: Ali Husnain Shah
The legal maxim staff interviewed Ali Husnain Shah, a student of LL.B (Year 3) Punjab University Programme in Pakistan College of Law. His diverse background and focus on studying law made him an interesting subject for our campus journals. We asked him about his background and what brought him to the study of law. This…
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CLEA’s Essay Competition
The following essay written by Faizan Daud won the 3rd prize in the Commonwealth Legal Education Association’s Essay Competition in 2014. He was awarded with a cash prize and his essay was published online. ‘’Can the Commonwealth (Latimer House) Principles on Three Branches of Government 2003 serve as an effective framework for safeguarding democracy and…