ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Law and Justice has disposed of and vetted around 577 International and Domestic Agreements, Treaties, MoUs, contracts and protocols that were received from different Ministries, Divisions and Departments of the Government of the Pakistan, in six months, from August 2019 to February 2020.
The Law Ministry plays an important role in assisting all the other Ministries and Divisions by giving legal opinions, dealing with the matters of interpretation of law and vetting countless MoUs and Agreements from a legal point of view, says a statement issued here on Tuesday.
During the period of six months, around 60 legal opinions from different Ministries, Divisions and Departments were disposed of.
Similarly, the Ministry received around 492 cases for opinion and interpretation of law, out of which 454 cases were disposed of by the Ministry.
The Ministry also deals with Mercy petitions of condemned prisoners and prepares parawise comments on writ petitions received by aggrieved persons against decisions of the President of Pakistan and Wafaqi Mohtasib and Federal Tax Ombudsman cases.