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CJ Qazi Faez Isa: Constitution does not grant CJ power to decide unilaterally or arbitrarily When power is concentrated in an individual, disastrous consequences follow When consultation takes with with 2 senior most judges, there is continuity + CJ’s office is strengthened

CJP really wanted his “arbitrary and unilateral” powers back, something he agitated against for years 🙃

Leaving aside objections to composition, timing, intention behind Constitutional Court (CC); we need to actually discuss very workability of the idea (which many people naively presume a good idea IF done properly) in our legal context. Let’s start with few basic questions: 1/n

One of the most important parts of SC judgment, which is why Elections Act amendments won’t have any impact on the relief given Returned candidates “shall be deemed..candidates of PTI from the date of the publication of their names as returned candidates in the official Gazette”

Lawyers urge the Judges of HCs & SC: do not yield. When today’s history is recorded in tomorrow’s judgments, let it say that you were not complicit #NoToPCOCourt

1.I'm mesmerised. First Benazir, then Jinnah, now Dorab Patel. It seems that the judges of this proposed constitutional court will be imported from a different planet because apparently they won't be touched by the existing institutional & political power relations in the country

The UN Rapporteur on Independence of Judges & Lawyers Margaret Satterthwaite has issued a communication to the Govt of Pak on the proposed 26th Amendment and "its implications for independence of the judiciary and the protection of human rights in Pakistan": spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/…

📘 New Book review by Niloufer Siddiqui! Zoha Waseem ’s "Insecure Guardians" examines Karachi’s police as both enforcers and victims in a politicized environment. Read Siddiqui’s review of this key work on policing in the Global South. 🇵🇰 👉🏽Dig deeper: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

The 26th constitutional amendment is a blow to the independence of the judiciary, the rule of law, and separation of powers, says ICJ icj.org/pakistan-26th-…

Pakistan 🇵🇰 is undergoing a process of authoritarian consolidation. Can the judiciary help in stalling this development? YASSER KURESHI (Yasser Kureshi) on courts, constitutions, authoritarian consolidation, and a recent judgment by the Supreme Court. verfassungsblog.de/courts-constit…

In this blogpost I share my thoughts on some of the recent constitutional developments in Pakistan this year. I am grateful to Verfassungsblog for publishing this piece!

Female lawyers from across 🇵🇰 have filed a petition asking the SC to strike down the 26th Amendment on procedural and substantive grounds. We have asked for a Full Court to hear our petition. The Constitutional Bench cannot determine its own constitutionality. Zainab Janjua

Thank you to IDEAS and Adnan Bajwa for hosting me for this talk and to Dr. Maryam S. Khan for such a thorough and thoughtful reading and discussion of the book. Really enjoyed the talk!

1. Developments related to judiciary since Parliament enacted 26th amendment in Oct 2024 confirm fears this was no sincere “reform” to make judges “accountable” Instead, what we see is the most blatant attempt at judicial capture by an insecure regime struggling with legitimacy:

The 26th amendment transformed Pakistan’s constitutional structure, further moving the state in an unambiguously authoritarian direction. In this post, I reflect on the institutional politics that led to this constitutional subjugation of the judiciary. verfassungsblog.de/constitutional…

Constitutionally Capturing Pakistan’s Constitutional Courts Must read by ⁦Yasser Kureshi⁩ verfassungsblog.de/constitutional…