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All of the following statements about equality of citizens are false EXCEPT:
- A) Absolute equality is possible everywhere
- B) Absolute equality is possible only in advanced countries
- C) Absolute equality is impossible
- D) Absolute equality is possible only in developing countries
What does the term ‘double jeopardy' mean?
- A) The right to a fair trial.
- B) To be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation.
- C) Right to consult a lawyer of his own choice.
- D) A person cannot be tried twice for the same crime based on the same conduct.
Which of the following persons cannot file a writ of habeas corpus in a court?
- A) Advocate
- B) Aggrieved Person
- C) Director of Human Rights Organization
- D) A Politician
Which of the following statements best explains the Judicial Review?
- A) Review of the judicial structure of the system
- B) Review of lower judiciary by higher judiciary
- C) Check against excess of power in derogation of private right
- D) Power vested in High Courts to challenge Supreme Court
Which of the following statements is true about article 13 of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan?
- A) No person shall be deprived of life or liberty save in accordance with the law.
- B) No person shall be prosecuted or punished for the same offense more than once.
- C) All forms of forced labour and trafficking in human beings are prohibited.
- D) Every citizen shall have the right to profess, practice, and propagate his religion.
An association may take all of the following arrangements EXCEPT:
- A) Institute
- B) Hub
- C) Company
- D) Firm
Under which of the following articles of Constitution of Pakistan 1973, it is stated that every citizen has the right to remain in the country?
- A) Article 13
- B) Article 15
- C) Article 16
- D) Article 14
Which of the following sections of Article-17 of 1973 Constitution of Pakistan held that execution of accounts of a political party is necessary?
- A) 4
- B) 2
- C) 5
- D) 3
Which of the following authorities possesses the powers of Judicial Review vested in Pakistan?
- A) All type of the courts
- B) Tribunals
- C) Supreme and High courts
- D) Magistrates
Which of the following writs is issued by the High Court or Supreme Court to force an authority to perform a function that it is not performing?
- A) Quo warranto
- B) Certiorari
- C) Mandamus
- D) Habeas corpus
Article 199(2) and Article 184 of the Constitution mainly deal with:
- A) Enforcement of fundamental rights
- B) Tax collection
- C) Criminal punishment
- D) Election process
In which of the following years Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Islam was given?
- A) 1973
- B) 1980
- C) 1948
- D) 1975
Under which of the following articles of Constitution of Pakistan 1973, it is stated that every citizen shall have the right to assemble peacefully without arms?
- A) Article 16
- B) Article 13
- C) Article 14
- D) Article 15
Which of the following terms best explains the right to bring an action or to be heard in a given forum?
- A) Court notice
- B) Right action
- C) Forum hearing
- D) Locus Standi
Under which of the following articles High Court has the right to stop an authority that is violating the Freedom of Trade?
- A) Article 199
- B) Article 399
- C) Article 99
- D) Article 299
Which of the following laws states that no police officer or any person in authority shall offer or make any inducement, threat or promise for obtaining a confession?
- A) Code of Civil Procedure
- B) Code of Certain Procedure
- C) Code of Conduct Procedure
- D) Code of Criminal Procedure
Which of the following writs is a safeguard of personal freedom?
- A) Quo warranto
- B) Certiorari
- C) Habeas corpus
- D) Mandamus
The maximum period to keep a person in preventive detention if a person acting in a manner prejudicial to the public order is:
- A) 11 Months
- B) 8 Months
- C) 10 Months
- D) 6 Months
In Ottoman Empire, the ombudsman system was named as______________.
- A) Deewan-e-Siasat
- B) Deewan-e-Hakoomat
- C) Deewan-e-Mazalim
- D) Deewan-e-Khas
Which of the following terms best explains the court’s written order to a legal authority to do or to desist from an act?
- A) Judgment
- B) Ruling
- C) Direction
- D) Writ