ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court against the government's proposed constitutional amendment.
The petition, submitted by senior lawyers Abid Zuberi, Shafqat Mehmood, Shahab Sarki, Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan, Munir Kakar, and others, names the federal government, all four provinces, the National Assembly, the Senate, and others as respondents.
The petition requests that the proposed constitutional amendment be declared unconstitutional.
It argues that the amendment undermines the separation of powers and judicial independence, and seeks to stop the federal government from proceeding with it.
The petition further calls for the amendment to be annulled and for judicial independence and powers to be upheld as sacred.
Additionally, it requests that if the parliament passes the amendment, the president be restrained from signing it.
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Earlier, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), a leading member and former Supreme Court Bar Association president, Hamid Khan, announced the launch of a lawyers' movement against the proposed constitutional amendments.
The march will begin on Sept 19.
Speaking to the media outside the Supreme Court, Hamid Khan criticised efforts to have constitutional amendments.
He described the proposed amendments as a mockery of the constitution and condemned the potential creation of a federal constitutional court.