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CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN :(4) Nothing in this Article shall be deemed to affect compulsory service


 * (a) by any person undergoing punishment for an offence against any law; or


 * (b) required by any law for public purpose:

Provided that no compulsory service shall be of a cruel nature or incompatible with human dignity.

Protection against retrospective punishment

12. (1) No law shall authorize the punishment of a person—
 * (a) for an act or omission that was not punishable by law at the time of the act or omission; or


 * (b) for an offence by a penalty greater than, or of a kind different from, the penalty prescribed by law for that offence at the time the offence was committed.


 * (2) Nothing in clause (1) or in Article 270 shall apply to any law making acts of abrogation or subversion of a Constitution in force in Pakistan at any time since the twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, an offence.

Protection against double punishment and self incrimination

13. No person—


 * (a) shall be prosecuted or punished for the same offence more than once; or


 * (b) shall, when accused of an offence, be compelled to be a witness against himself.

Inviolability of dignity of man, etc.

14. (1) The dignity of man and, subject to law, the privacy of home, shall be inviolable.


 * (2) No person shall be subjected to torture for the purpose of extracting evidence.

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