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The dream of the government could not be fulfilled, the Supreme Court decision trampled the wish of two-thirds majority – Pakistan

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

The dream of the government might not be fulfilled following the decision of the Supreme Court regarding reserved seats came out, the decision has crushed the desire of two-thirds majority.

Muslim League-N is still the largest party in the House following the Supreme Court decision, the existence of the Sunni Ittehad Council in the Lower House is in danger and Tehreek-e-Insaf has been reborn in the House. With the decision, the ruling coalition will have 210 seats while the opposition will have 125 seats.

In the Qaumi Assembly, the majority party still remains with the Muslim League-N with 108 seats, while the PPP has 68 seats, the MQM has 22 seats, while the Zia League, BAP and the National Party have one seat each, thus the total number of government alliances is 210. is made

Election Commission decision nullified, PTI eligible for reserved seats in National Assembly: Supreme Court

At present, the number of PTI affiliated to Sunni Unity Council is 84, Tehreek-e-Insaaf has 8 independent members, JUI-F has 8 members and MWM, BNP and PK MAP have one seat each.

The number of the opposition in the National Assembly is 103. After the Supreme Court decision, the existence of the Sunni Unity Council ended and the Tehreek-e-Insaf entered the House.

In the decision, 39 members were declared as elected members of National Assembly of PTI, the remaining 41 members can become part of PTI by submitting an affidavit within 15 days.

The decision stated that Election Commission, PTI can approach the court if it wants an explanation.

Supreme Court Justice Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Muneeb Akhtar, Justice Ayesha Malik, Justice Hasan Azhar Rizvi, Justice Shahid Waheed and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar gave a decision in favor of the application of the Sunni Unity Council.

The Supreme Court has reserved the verdict in the case related to the specific seats of the Sunni Ittehad Council

On the other hand, Chief Justice Qazi Faizaisa and Justice Jamal Mandukhel, Justice Naeem Afghan, Justice Aminuddin Khan opposed the petitions.

Prove that Election Commission has taken unconstitutional action, we will blow it up, Chief Justice of Pakistan

The Supreme Court ordered to give reserved seats for women and minorities to Tehreek-e-Insaf and said that Tehreek-e-Insaf should submit names for reserved seats within 15 days of the decision.

#judges #opposed #giving #seats #PTI #Justice #Isas #vote #phase #Pakistan
2024-07-14 17:14:45

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Death row inmate remains on court orders after 12 years, verdict overturned – Pakistan

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief

The Supreme Court has issued orders for the release of a prisoner who has been serving a sentence for 12 years and the criminals have also been released.

The Supreme Court said in the ruling that the criminal Muhammad Ejaz was found guilty of killing the husband of the co-criminal in 2010. According to the case, there was an illicit relationship between the two criminals. .

According to the order, Muhammad Ejaz was convicted of murdering the husband of the co-accused in 2010.

It has been said in the verdict that according to the plaintiff’s case, both the criminals were found giving electric shock to the victim, when the plaintiff caught him red-handed, the criminal Muhammad Ijaz started firing. The husband of the co-accused was killed by the firing of Muhammad Ejaz. According to the lawyer Safai, the case of suicide was declared as murder. According to the lawyer Safai, there was no illicit relationship between the two criminals. According to the lawyer Safai, the victim was not given a share of the family inheritance. On which the victim committed suicide, according to the prosecutor, the plaintiff is an eyewitness of the incident.

The Supreme Court said in the verdict that according to the prosecutor, both the criminals wanted to kill the victim, the Supreme Court carefully examined the evidence, there are contradictions in the statements and evidence, according to the plaintiff’s case, the victim told him regarding the illicit relationship of the criminals, the plaintiff’s case There is no eyewitness to the illicit relationship of the criminals with themselves, there is a contradiction in the statements, the deceased had not registered any case once morest his wife and Muhammad Ijaz alias Billa.

According to the order, it was surprising that the subordinate judiciary declared illicit relations without any evidence, the incident happened in broad daylight but no one supported the story of the plaintiff case, according to the records, the accused gave her husband a share of the family inheritance. She used to pressure to take.

The Supreme Court has said in the verdict that considering all the evidence, Muhammad Ejaz alias Billa and Naseem Akhtar are acquitted from the case.

#Death #row #inmate #remains #court #orders #years #verdict #overturned #Pakistan
2024-07-07 01:06:53

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Brazil becomes the largest country to decriminalize marijuana

by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
France 24

Rio de Janeiro.-Brazil has decriminalized marijuana for personal use, making the nation of 203 million the largest to take such a step and the latest sign of growing global acceptance of the drug.

Brazil’s Supreme Court has ruled that Brazilians might possess up to 40 grams of cannabis (roughly enough for 80 joints) without facing penalties, a decision that would take effect within days and remain in place for the next 18 months.

The court asked Congress and Brazilian health authorities to then set the permanent amount of marijuana that citizens might possess.

Thousands of Brazilians are serving prison sentences for possessing amounts of marijuana below the new threshold, legal analysts said.

It is unclear how the decision would affect those sentences.

Many are black men, who account for 61% of drug trafficking prosecutions but 27% of the population.

Studies have shown that thousands of black Brazilians have been convicted in situations that have resulted in lesser or no charges once morest whites.

Brazil has long taken a tough criminal approach to drugs, so its decision to effectively allow citizens to smoke marijuana is part of a notable shift in public opinion and drug policy over the past two decades.

More than 20 countries have decriminalized or legalized recreational use of marijuana, most of them in Europe and America.

Many more countries have decriminalized marijuana, meaning they have abolished criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of the drug, although it remains technically illegal and authorities still pursue dealers.

In many cases, the changes have been part of a broader political shift to treat drug use as a health problem rather than a criminal act.

In the United States, marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, but states can now set their own policies.

Voters in Colorado and Washington first approved recreational marijuana use in 2012; now, more than half of Americans live in states where marijuana is legal.

According to Gallup, seventy percent of Americans now believe marijuana should be legal, up from 31 percent in 2000.

Although the country now has a more lenient federal marijuana policy than the United States, far fewer Brazilians than Americans are in favor of the drug.

Less than a third of Brazilians said they supported decriminalizing marijuana, according to a March survey of 2,000 people by Datafolha, a Brazilian pollster.

Still, liberalization of drug policies has led to changing attitudes in many parts of the world, according to Angela Me, head of research at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

“The perception of the risk of cannabis has decreased and this is reflected in the data on the percentage of young people who believe that cannabis is harmful,” he said.

“There has been a huge drop in both North America and Europe.”

Brazil’s Supreme Court has decriminalized marijuana following nearly a decade of deliberations over a 2009 court case.

That case centered on a 55-year-old man who was caught with 3 grams of marijuana while in prison on a separate charge in Sao Paulo.

He was sentenced to two months of community service, but his lawyer appealed, arguing that punishing drug users violated Brazil’s constitution.

Since 2015, the Supreme Court has delayed ruling on the case because the justices disagreed on how to distinguish between users and dealers, which drugs should be decriminalized and who should be in charge of setting drug policy.

The court reached a majority on Tuesday and finalized its decision on Wednesday.

In the ruling, Supreme Court President Luis Roberto Barroso said the decision does not condone marijuana use but rather acknowledges failed drug policies that have led to the mass incarceration of poor young people, pushing many of them into organized crime.

“At no point are we legalizing or saying that drug use is a positive thing,” he said.

“The strategies we have adopted are not working.”

In 2006, the Brazilian Congress passed a law that aimed to increase penalties for drug traffickers and reduce them for consumers.

The law required milder forms of punishment for drug users, such as community service.

However, the law was vague regarding what constituted a dealer, and critics say police and prosecutors have used it to jail more drug users.

Ten years following the law was passed, the percentage of prisoners detained on drug charges rose from 9% to 28%, according to Human Rights Watch.

Studies have shown that black men have been disproportionately affected.

A study of drug cases between 2010 and 2020 in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, showed that police classified 31,000 Black Brazilians as dealers in situations where white people were treated as consumers, according to the Insper Education and Research Institute, a Brazilian university.

“Skin color matters when it comes to how drug laws are applied,” said Cristiano Maronna, director of Justa, a research group that investigates the Brazilian justice system.

“The darker your skin,” he said, the greater the chances of being charged with “trafficking, even in small amounts.”

In its decision, the Supreme Court sought to clarify the threshold between possession and trafficking.

The court said people might still be charged with trafficking if they are found with other items commonly used in drug dealing, such as a scale.

Maronna said that despite the new policy, Brazil still has some of the toughest drug laws in Latin America, which has helped fill the country’s prisons.

Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world, following the United States and China.

Even before the new marijuana policy was finalized, there were already efforts by Brazilian law enforcement to undo it.

#Brazil #largest #country #decriminalize #marijuana
2024-07-03 02:00:54

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