Concerns mount over proposed court hierarchy; lawyers urge full court meeting
Supreme Court. PHOTO: FILE
The fate of Pakistan’s top court hangs in the balance as the government pushes through the 27th Constitutional Amendment – a move that could redefine, or even rename, the Supreme Court itself.
Tense deliberations are reportedly underway within the judiciary over whether to respond collectively to the existential threat to judicial independence.
Under the proposed amendment, the Supreme Court would be placed under a newly established Federal Constitutional Court (FCC), its rulings bound by the latter’s jurispr
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