ABSTRACT
For Pakistan's judiciary, there are high courts located in five major cities or areas, which include: Lahore, Sindh, Peshawar, Islamabad, and Baluchistan. The high courts can be invoked for the protection of a myriad of 'fundamental rights' listed in the Constitution. The first case of the high court's direct involvement in a row between the United States and Pakistan was in Raymond Davis's homicide trial. Similar to the Davis case, the Peshawar High Court became embroiled in an especially thorny US-Pakistan relations issue, as the court received petitions challenging the legality of the United States-operated covert drone program on Pakistani territory. Pakistan has faced a particularly difficult set of environmental disasters such as earthquakes and floods that have led to thousands of deaths and the internal displacement of citizens across the nation. International studies on violence against women demonstrate that Pakistan has underperformed in comparison to other nations in offering discrimination free protection and prosecution for female victims of violence.
