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" LAW ON QISAS AND DIYAT AND ITS APPLICATION LAW ON QISAS AND DIYAT AND ITS APPLICATION   [Addenda to the Article by the same author published in P L D 1991 Jour. 87]   By   Mr. Justice (Retd.) Mian Qurban Sadiq Ikram   The Ordinance No. VII of 19Xl was not placed before the National Assembly. It, therefore, expired on 4‑1‑1991. A new Ordinance No. I of 1991 was made and promulgated on 4th January, 1991, which came into force at once. A few more amendments in the Pakistan Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Code, have been introduced in this Ordinance besides amending a few provisions of Ordinance VII of 1990.   Section 54 of Pakistan Penal Code, has been amended by adding a proviso to the effect that the sentence of death passed against all offender convicted for an offence of dull shall not be commuted Without the consent of the heirs of the victim. Similarly a proviso has been added in section 55 of Pakistan Penal Code, to restrict the powers to commute sentence of imprisonment for life without the consent of the victim or, as the case maybe, of his heirs   In Ordinance VII of 1990 arch was defined to mean the compensation to be paid BY THE OFFENDER to the victim or his heirs. Similarly diva) in the said Ordinance was defined to mean compensation specified in section 323 payable to the heirs of the victim BY THE OFFENDER. In the re‑enacted Ordinance the words "by the offender" have been omitted from these two definitions.   In Ordinance VII of 1990 qisas was not defined. In this Ordinance visas has been defined to mean "punishment by causing similar hurt at the same part of the body of the convict as he has caused to the victim or by causing his death if he has committed (jail‑i‑amd, in…