SC dismisses pleas challenging constitutional amendments

Following the petitioners’ pleas for withdrawal, the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected appeals contesting the 26th proposed constitutional revisions.
Among other measures, the government’s much-discussed constitutional package seeks to create a federal constitutional court and give the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) a three-year term.
The combined petition was considered by a three-member Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa and consisting of Justices Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Shahid Bilal Hassan.
Abid S. Zubairi, a current member of the Pakistan Bar Council and a former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association, submitted the petition against the proposed constitutional revisions with other council members.