The draft Personal Data Protection Bill was introduced last month on the website of the Ministry of IT and Telecom for consultation. The bill lays out the requirement of consent of a citizen for their data to be processed, notices to them in case of their data being processed, non-disclosure of personal data for purpos...

Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed on Monday issued directions to reopen shopping malls across the country. During a hearing of a suo motu case regarding measures taken to deal with the coronavirus crisis — being heard by a five-member bench comprising the CJP, Justice Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Mia...

Although the E Court facility had been launched at the Supreme Court last year this much needed function was lacking at the District level. The civil courts in Pakistan are the courts of first instance. The civil courts along with the magistrate courts form the basis of litigations in Pakistan. Since the March when Pak...

Pakistan has zero laws on Data Protection or Privacy. On the contrary we have many laws that seek to intrude upon the privacy of individuals and gather data. The right to privacy has been enshrined as a fundamental right under the Constitution pf Pakistan 1973. Article 14 of the Constitution of Pakistan 1973 provides t...

On February 26th, 2020 Pakistan confirmed its first two cases of the novel Carona virus also known as Caovid-19. On March 20th, 2020 the first death from the virus was reported and simultaneously discussions within the Government circles and the National Disaster Management Authority of Pakistan commenced on a lockdown...

The economy will be the second casualty of Covid-19 and various businesses have probably began planning on how to cut their losses. Businesses are being effected due to the fact that governments using their executive orders have asked establishments to shut down for the time being and secondly because establishments ar...