BTW, Pashtun, Baloch are ethnic groups and within those ethnic groups you have tribes, like Burki, Wazir, Afridi, Masud etc for Pashtuns, Bugti, Zardari, Mengal, Marri etc for Baloch.
Most Pakistanis tribal allegience is very nominal, sort of like how you have decendents of Italians, Irish and Poles in the US, often identiiable due to name, but not an issue in day to day life.
Greg Mortensen’s book was a waste of money, and incidentally while charity work and educational philantrophy is a great idea, his work is in Gilgit-Baltistan, which is far far far away from the militant affected areas. And is majority Shia to boot.
Wahabi Schools are welcome, as are schools from all other religious sects, and schools adhereing to all persuasions, its a free country and people have the right to hold views that they deem fit.
Not really law related question incidentally.
I deal with people’s vital documents all the time in my line of work (I’m an immigration paralegal), and once in a while I come across a Pakistani marriage certificate. The options to select regarding the bride are Virgin, Divorced, or Widowed (as if there were no other possibilities).
While this is mildly amusing (or aggravating, depending on my mood that day) to my Western feminist self, it makes me wonder - is there any substantive legal purpose for it?
There is a line about then groom, if he has been married before.
A widow may draw upon benefits from the Federal Government Treasury, and collect a pension, a divorcee will be receving mainatainance from her ex. Both will (in case of pension, may) cease upon remarriage.
A highly overworked and under paid official is the Registrar of marriages. S/he will most likely mark her down as never married and be done with it, since its a simple matter now, S/He would be a lot more interested where the question is answered “widowed or remarried”, since then additional documentation has to be attached, death certificate, notice of dfissolution of marriage, any settlememt agreement, pension, benefits etc.
If there is an order for maintenance, is enforcement of it left to the recipient, or is there a government agency that can handle it on the recipient’s behalf?
The maintainance is paid into the Court of the Senior Civil Judge of the District where the recepient is ordinarily resident and the money is withrawn from there. It can be monthly, quaterly or yearly, depending on the order.
If it is in the interests of justice to so order or the parties have agreed thus. Been a few instance. [Personal Opinion] The whole divorce court system is designed to fleece and abuse men so not bloody likely to happen often [/Personal Opinion]
The court decides on the basis of what is in the childs best interests. They also usually tell the parents to decide on arrangements and are usually happy to thus order, but the primary concern is the child’s best interests.
Pakistani law is the Law of British India, thus Indian Judgements are considered. English law is also highly influential and almost all offices have books on both and cases from these jurisdictions are cited often.
Outside, well some places have American law at hand, mostly constitutional law. My own office has a set of Corpus Juris Secendum. However American law is usually cosulted when you have found nothing and its a case of “lets see what the Yanks have to say on this”.
In addition the Law Commission (the body which reccomends new legislation) has access to a wide variety of foreign laws and on occasion reccomends legislation bases upon a foreign statute, the new Consumer protection act for instance, drew heavily on the English and Australian Acts)
All persons are equal under the law. There is an old British Raj era statute which forbids “unnatural Acts” but it is rarely enforced.
Most Pakistanis opinions on homosexuality can be described as “tolerated, not accepted”. If you are a honosexual, and discreet, you are ok, even if everyone knows your orientation. Pakistan’s present ambassador to the UN has often been “outed” in the media. Whether he is or not, nobody says, but I have my suspicions.
In addition quite a few media people are openly gay as well.
Heh. Interesting - I’d not expected that, but it makes sense, of course. Are there many conferences where Pakistani and Indian lawyers regularly attend and discuss legal problems they’ve got in common? Do Pakistani lawyers tend to have more moderate views of Pakistan-Indian relations than the general population?
Do you know if Indian jurists often cite Pakistani cases?
Well, I don’t see them very often, and it’s been a while since I saw the last one, and it was probably at least a decade or two old, so I won’t rely on my memory on this one.
However, this thread just became extraordinarily timely.
My firm has a client who was born in Pakistan, but immigrated to Canada as a child and became a Canadian citizen in his late teens (he is now in his 30s). A U.S. green card-related issue that has just arisen for him (of which I won’t go into details for confidentiality reasons) hinges on whether he was ever a dual citizen of Pakistan since he arrived in the U.S.
Well, initial research indicated that he wasn’t; the source we usually usefor this kind of info indicated that Pakistan doesn’t allow dual citizenship, and that one involuntarily loses Pakistani citizenship on acquiring any foreign citizenship (as was the case with our client). I tried double-checking with the Pakistani sites, but the links weren’t working.
So how would this work in the case of someone who had previously lost Pakistani citizenship by acquiring foreign citizenship? Would he automatically reacquire Pakistani citizenship, or would he have to apply for it? If the former, would restoration of Pakistani citizenship be retroactive?
We will obviously be in touch with the Pakistani Consulate, but I have no idea what kind of luck we will have with them, so any guidance or citations you could provide would be most welcome.
I recently saw a documentary on Pakistan. It was by EWTN or The Catholic Network. There is a region of Pakistan that the Christians live but they are a small minority. The biggest problem is getting the Pakistan government to build schools for the children. Some children attend school outside in all kinds of weather. Why does the government allow this? The money is there and the United States pays Pakistan to build schools but they don’t?
This leads to children to not get an education and join militia groups. Now the Catholic run schools show a much brighter picture. They are clean and the faith of the children is not interfered with. The Catholic children go to mass and the others can practice their own beliefs. I was amazed at how poor these families were. One little boy quit school to go pump gas for a penny an hour. His Mother said she can’t make it without him working. He was like 8 years old.
Ok, So my question is where does the US funding go if not to build schools? As you know yourself, education is everything.
If you are born in Pakistan, you are a Pakistani citizen. End of discussion. There are certain countries with whom you are permitted duel nationality but even with countries where dual nationality is not permitted the loss of citizenship applies only if the person was over 21 at the time of taking the new citizenship.