International Criminal Justice System and its Implementation in Pakistan

Abstract

Although criminal justice was always viewed as a state-level issue, it was always viewed as justifiable under the sovereignty principle, which prevented states from adopting international standards. Sovereignty barriers began to fall as a result of an increase in the importance of sharing experiences, growing admiration for human rights, and the necessity to bring international crimes to an end. International legal principles were able to more fully infiltrate the domestic legal system. International criminal law is a subset of international law that focuses on holding individuals accountable for grave violations of international humanitarian law (ICL). As a result of World War II, the idea of blaming people rather than governments for human rights abuses became more popular. This field of international law deals with transnational crimes such as war crimes, crimes against humanity, aggression, and genocide. According to a number of international treaties, such as the Geneva Convention, infringements against international humanitarian law must be prosecuted by High Contracting Parties under the Universal Jurisdiction principle. International criminal treaties and customary international law recognize the rest of the egregious violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) as war crimes. Numerous IHL difficulties can be illuminated by international criminal tribunals. Military tribunals and conventional courts, as well as internationalized or mixed tribunals, as well as international ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court now implement the existing system of international criminal law (ICC). In this work, the researcher hopes to identify a few of these quirks. It is the objective of this article to highlight the present examples of the application and recognition of international criminal law in Pakistan, and to assess how the ICL has become significant at the domestic level in Pakistan for the purposes of bringing international crimes to a close