On a media question, of whether the lawyers will accept the 26th Amendment, Hamid Khan replied, “We consider the 26th Amendment the biggest attack on the constitution that has unsettled the judicial system.” It is to be mentioned here that the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) election has been underway today. He said lawyers must launch […]
Years of condemnation on social media and chanting against the nonsensical two-finger test (TFT) at the Aurat March has finally given the women of Pakistan something to celebrate. The Lahore High Court’s (LHC’s) Justice Ayesha A Malik on January 4, 2021 passed a 30-page detailed judgment against the TFT. Declaring it an old practice of […]
The Lahore High Court ruled on Monday that the two-finger and hymen tests of rape survivors were “illegal and unconstitutional”. The verdict announced by LHC judge Justice Ayesha A Malik in a petition challenging the virginity tests of rape survivors. The 30-page verdict stated that the testing methods were “unscientific having no medical basis; therefore […]
