As the 27th Constitutional Amendment threatens to erode judicial independence, Pakistan’s judiciary faces a defining choice — to reclaim its conscience or surrender it to power.
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“The judiciary must be independent of every other power; otherwise, there is no liberty, no security, no justice.” — John Adams
Centuries after John Adams spoke these words, their resonance feels almost prophetic today, as the government tables the 27th Constitutional Amendment. For those who have witnessed the slow, deliberate erosion of judicial independence in Pakistan, this moment feels less like reform and more like resignation.
The judiciary, already weakened and weary after the 26th Amendment, now stands on the precipice of collapse. What is being framed as an administrative restructuring — the creation of a separate constitutional court — in truth, threatens to hollow out the very authority of an
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