NRO detailed judgment [Pakistan SC] News
NRO detailed judgment [Pakistan SC]

National Reconciliation Ordinance judgment, Supreme Court of Pakistan, January 20, 2010 [granting President Asif Ali Zardari and 8,000 other government officials immunity from charges including corruption, embezzlement, money laundering, murder, and terrorism between January 1986, and October 1999].

Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on the National Reconciliation Ordinance.

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