Freedom of Speech and Expression in Pakistan and Its Limitations: A Comparative Analysis of Pakistani and International Legal Standards

Freedom of speech and Expression’ is an fundamentally human right and one of the cardinal establishment of modern democracies that empowers Individuals to talk out unreservedly approximately their thoughts and sees without trouble of censorship, examination and striking back, and it is one of the acquired crucial right since the starting of mankind and afterward eventually get beneath the legitimate umbrella of different constitutions, treaties, conventions and charters of the world. And to know that since the constitution of Pakistan gifts each citizen the right to opportunity of expression, but no one can work out this right due to bureaucracy. In this setting, the existing thinks about objective to evaluate the opportunity of expression circumstance of the nation to uncover those variables and performing artists that have a potential to reestablish it. This study adopts qualitative approach that all citizens of Pakistan appreciate flexibility of speech and expression subject to certain limitations such as ‘glory of Islam, law and arrange and national security.’ These kind of restrictive measures have been utilized against all divisions of the society, minorities, writers, human rights dissident, etc.