Religion, law and Bhagat Singh

When the East India Company first came to India in 1601, it claimed — through the principle of extraterritoriality — to be governed by its own laws, rejecting lex loci or the local laws of the Mughal Empire and its feudatories. Accordingly, the earliest charters empowered the East India Company to draw up reasonable laws in consonance with the principles of English common law. The charter of 1726 applied the laws of England, in entirety, directly to the East India Company’s holdings in India, namely the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, and all their residents. English law was applied in these towns not just to the English settlers and traders but all communities, castes and people residing within the boundaries of these towns, without any distinction.

Yasser Latif Hamdani's interview with The Analyst World of Mumbai

What is your idea of Pakistan as lay man? And as a Member of the Bar and a Law Man?

YLH : I have tried but I cannot distinguish between my idea of Pakistan as a layman and as a member of the bar. As I understand it the idea of Pakistan arose out and as a result of the following:

• The inability of British Indians to evolve a common nationality and this itself has three factors:  a. The insecurity of Muslims – having taken to modern education and British rule much later than the Hindu Majority (a gap of 80 years almost b/w Ram Mohan Roy and Sir Syed Ahmed Khan) b. The unwillingness of the Hindu majority to meet the Muslims half way and allay their fears and c. the role of the British rulers i.e. making Hindu-Muslim settlement a sine qua non and a condition precedent for responsible government in British India.

Restraining Order against Nabiha Meher Shaikh, Urooj Zia and Ahmed S Yusuf in Yasser Latif Hamdani v. Nabiha Meher Shaikh etc

The following is the true transcript of the first order in the titled law suit. Emphasis added is mine.

Yasser Latif Hamdani

(Plaintiff)

Versus

Nabiha Meher Shaikh

Ahmed Yusuf

Urooj Zia 

(Defendants)

Present: Learned Counsel for the Plaintiff

This is a fresh suit. Let it be registered. Summons in the name of respondents be issued for 29.09.2012.
Meanwhile respondents are restrained from defaming the Plaintiff till the next date of hearing.


Announced : 31. 07.12

Signed:

Abdul Sattar Langah
Addl Sessions Judge, Lahore.