Farhan Khaliq Anwer Advocate; The Lords International [Magazine of Law & Law Fields]

ROZNAMCHA - POLICE DAILY DIARY Section 44 of POLICE ACT 1861 reads “ Police-officers to keep diary.--It shall be the duty of every officer in charge of a police-station to keep a general diary in such form shall, from time to time, be prescribed by the State Government and to record therein all complaints and charges preferred, the names of all persons arrested, the names of the complainants, the offences charged against them, the weapons or property that shall have been taken from their possession or otherwise, and the names of the witnesses who shall have been examined. The Magistrate of the district shall be at liberty to call for and inspect such diary”. And according to rule no; 22.48 of the Police Rules 1934 , “Shortly before the close of each quarter, books containing the proper number of pages ensuring the three months shall be issued to police station by the Superintendent.  The Superintendent shall fix the hours at which station diaries shall be daily clo...

Legal system exists for litigants. In reality, however, this does not appear to be true and agony of the litigants is hardly felt by anyone. Number of seminars are being held, lectures are being delivered and committees after committees are being constituted to find out solutions for the delay in dispensation of justice. One would be astonished to know that the High Courts & Supreme Court of Pakistan works round the clock for maximum days in a year, that too with lesser number of judges than the approved posts of judges. But the problems causing delay in disposal of cases could not be solved. Off course delay in disposal of cases is not my point of discussion here but the real issue which requires serious attention and introspection is, how far the custom of observing  en bloc vacations in courts is just in the present context? It appears that the custom of observing vacations dates back to the British rule in our sub-continent. Before the British rule, justice was being ad...

FEW POINTS MAY HELP US UNDERSTAND THE REALITIES ü The law-enforcement officer, involved in manipulating the process of interrogation or interview, should face criminal prosecution in our functional rule of law system. But this seems virtually impossible, and scarcely even imaginable. ü The law-enforcement officer uses the process of interrogation or interview to extort bribes from both the suspect and the victim. ü In order to prove before the superior officers, the wider public and to show that the officer concerned is “seriously” pursuing the matter, the third-degree method / coerciveness / torture is used to quicken the process of investigation and to extract information from suspect, regardless of the quality or authenticity of information extracted. ü By ignoring mandate of law, most often, non-qualitative judgments & orders are passed and ambiguous facts are being written in case diaries of the suit or matter. This is done for the purpose of creating the rec...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as drones. Flown by pilots sitting safely in Nevada, these remotely-piloted aircraft have the ability to hover over communities twenty-four hours a day and to target – and kill – those below at the mere push of a button. To date, the United States has used drones to execute without trial thousands of people in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia – all countries against whom it has not declared war. Nobody knows who the next target might be. Armed drones can hand down a death sentence simply because a person exhibited suspicious behaviour. Like, Noor Khan’s father, Malik Daud Khan, was a Pakistani tribal elder and mediator for local disputes. On March 17, 2011, Malik Daud Khan and 40 other tribal elders were killed in a US drone strike that targeted a meeting convened to resolve a dispute over a local chromite mine. The elders had notified and received permission from the Pakistani authorities for the meeting. Dozens watched helplessl...