A new court, revised tenure rules, limits on powers raise questions over 27th Amendment, Pakistan’s judicial structure
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Constitutions in Pakistan rarely die in flames. They survive the heat, only to be quietly rewritten by those who once swore to protect them. The 27th constitutional amendment keeps the book unburned, yet edits the chapters that shaped the Republic's balance of power. It builds a Federal Constitutional Court, a polished institution born of reform's promise. Beneath that veneer lies a redesign of power itself. The Supreme Court, once the last refuge of dissent, is reduced to an appellate archive, while the new court decides what is constitutional, what is lawful, and what may no longer be questioned.
It is the most sophisticated capture of the Constitution in our history, a coup written in calligraphy.
The harder question, though, is what the judiciary has done to the state as
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