Older legal instruments and court decisions employ patterns of English language usage that are in many cases archaic, particularly with respect to hyphenation. In the interest of authenticity, this usage has been retained in the titles of all materials reviewed and discussed in this volume. Similarly, in older laws and rulings, the names of the provinces of Balochistan and Sindh are written “Baluchistan” and “Sind” — the official spelling used by the British colonial administration. This spelling too has been retained in the titles reproduced here, although the modern spelling is used throughout the text of the analysis.
The process of amending laws in Pakistan is in many cases carried out in stages, by means of specific instruments intended to revise a single law, or through general amending or adapting legislation that deals with scores of legal instruments. The same hold true for repealing laws. As a result, it is sometimes difficult to determine the status of a particular statute. While every effort has been made to ensure that information about the status of various legal instruments is up-to-date, IUCN cannot guarantee that every law reviewed in this volume remains in force as of 2005.
