Says Amendment in violation of international human rights law, right to fair trial and justice and accountability.

Earlier this month, the Pakistani Parliament passed an amendment to the country's constitution, and it's revived long-standing divisions over Pakistan's separation of powers. Betsy Joles has more from ...

KARACHI: Describing the 27th Amendment as “a concerted and sustained attack” on the independence of the judiciary, Amnesty International on Tuesday highlighted the need for an urgent review of the ...

ISLAMABAD: Amnesty International on Tuesday said that the 27th Constitutional Amendment represents the “crescendo of a ...

Amnesty International has said that Pakistan’s 27th Constitutional Amendment was part of a “concerted and sustained attack on ...

Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and a lawyer based in Pakistan. On November 13, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan completed a legislative journey that lasted less than ...

A delegation of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid led by Federal Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Chaudhry Salik Hussain called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif in ...

In a statement, Amnesty said the amendment undermines judicial autonomy by establishing a Federal Constitutional Court that lacks sufficient safeguards for independence. The organisation said the new ...

Human rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday said the twenty-seventh amendment to the Constitution poses a grave threat to the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law in Pakistan by ...

ISLAMABAD: Responding to a critical report by Amnesty International, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar on Thursday defended the 27th Amendment, arguing that the creation of the Feder ...

ISLAMABAD: Amnesty International has sounded the alarm over Pakistan’s 27th Constitutional Amendment, warning that it poses a grave threat to judicial independence and entrenches executive control ...