Talaq judgments: Pakistani family law case summaries (2025)
Pakistani court judgments on talaq, summarised in plain English, newest first. Each gives the issue, what the court held and what it means in practice, and is reviewed by an advocate.
Our guide: Divorce in Pakistan: talaq, notice and the 90 days
1 judgment
A wife who says she was orally divorced cannot later claim the marriage continues for lack of a certificate
Nusrat Sadiq v. Nadeem Asghar etc.
Issue: Where the wife herself pleaded that her husband pronounced talaq three times by telephone, and he admitted it, does her maintenance run…
Held: No. Her own plaint asserted the divorce and claimed deferred dower on that basis, and the husband admitted it in his written statement filed through his attorney; admitted facts need not be proved, and a husband may plead and depose…
Art. 199, Constitution of Pakistan 1973s.7, Muslim Family Laws Ordinance 1961
