Reporting on the recently enacted Twenty-Seventh Constitutional Amendment (May 1, 2026), the article details how Pakistan’s parliament has restructured the judiciary in ways that the International Commission of Jurists has called “a flagrant attack on the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.” The amendment creates a new Federal Constitutional Court whose members lack equivalent security of tenure, removes the requirement that judges consent to inter-court transfers (raising the prospect of punitive reassignments), and grants lifetime criminal immunity to the President and to honorary military ranks. The amendment passed despite opposition from Chief Justice Yahya Afridi, illustrating how legislators and government-aligned legal architects can use constitutional drafting to entrench executive power.

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