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The Constitutional Amendment Bill drafted by the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) will be presented to before the parliament today.Draft of amendments was presented to Speaker National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza by the members of Constitutional Reforms Committee headed by its Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani. The PCCR has reached consensus on renaming NWFP as Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa.The committee on the composition of judicial committee for appointment of judges agreed that seventh member of the Judicial Commission would be former judge of the higher judiciary to be named by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.The 27 members of the committee, representing all the political groups having their representation in the two houses of the Parliament, signed the draft of 18th Constitutional Amendment comprising 95 articles - in a ceremony held at the Committee Room of the Parliament House.
