The Kathmandu Post’s May 14 opinion column reviews the cumulative damage that the 26th and 27th Constitutional Amendments — pushed through Pakistan’s parliament by political and military elites — have done to judicial independence. The piece details how the amendments empower a Special Parliamentary Committee to choose the Chief Justice, create a new Federal Constitutional Court that absorbs core jurisdiction from the Supreme Court, allow judges to be transferred between high courts without consent, and grant lifetime immunity from criminal prosecution to the president and senior military officers. The column frames the politicians, lawyers, and constitutional drafters behind the amendments as legal actors actively dismantling the judiciary’s structural protections, situating Pakistan within a broader pattern of legislatively engineered judicial capture.