AS Martin Luther King once said, “An unjust law is no law at all.”
In recent years, Pakistan has witnessed constitutional changes and amendments whose effects have rippled across the country, particularly in Balochistan.
These amendments have reshaped the structure of judicial authority and introduced laws that suppress fundamental rights under the guise of national security.
Every democratic state rests on the independence of its three pillars: legislature, executive and judiciary. But the 26th Constitutional Amendment disrupted this balance by directly interfering in the judiciary’s independence, effectively turning it into another arm of the executive.
This violates Article 175(3) of the Constitution, which states, “The judiciary shall be separated progressively from the executive”. Before the 26th Amendment, the Judicial Commission of Pakistan was composed mostly of judges: the chief justice of Pakistan (chairman), the four se
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