DISABILITY LAWS IN PAKISTAN: A CRITICAL & CONTEXTUAL STUDY
Abstract
Completing its 75 years of independence, come August 2022, the state of Pakistan is yet to guarantee absolute rights to its disabled citizens. Pakistan’s populace contains approximately 31 million disabled persons, and despite being great in number, the resolve seems lacking. This paper takes on a challenge to understand the laws of disability in Pakistan by examining its political bet using the 18th amendment to the constitution of 1973. It caters to the oversight of state organs in carrying out and administering required disability regulations. It explores the obliviousness of mental disability in legislation by legislative bodies, the endorsement or lack thereof of the higher judiciary for disability laws, and finally, it draws out suggestions to reproduce effective laws in Pakistan on the veil that covers atrocities against the disabled persons of Pakistan. For an overarching picture, the paper dives deeper into the dissonance of disability laws in Pakistan from the UN Convention it seeks to ratify and the bifurcation between mental and physical disability laws.
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