P.O. No. X of 1984
Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984
Also known as: QSO
- Jurisdiction
- federal
- Enacted
- 1984
- Domain
- evidence
Summary
PLACEHOLDER summary — law of evidence in Pakistan; replaced the Evidence Act, 1872.
Sections
- § 17Competence and number of witnessesPLACEHOLDER body — The competence of a person to testify and the number of witnesses required in any case shall be determined in accordance with the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah.
- § 102Burden of proofPLACEHOLDER body — Whoever desires any Court to give judgment as to any legal right or liability dependent on the existence of facts which he asserts, must prove that those facts exist.