The Party’s Central Executive Committee will meet on November 6 to decide its policy.
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari during an interview with Sky News on June 9, 2025. Photo: Sky News/ YouTube
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) delegation led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif met Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari to seek support for the passage of the 27th Constitutional Amendment.
The proposed amendment includes the creation of a constitutional court, restoration of executive magistrates and the power to transfer judges, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said. It also seeks to end the protection of provincial actions in the NFC Award and proposes changes to article 243, he stated in a post on X.
PMLN delegation headed by the prime minister @CMShehbaz called @AAliZardari & myself. He sought the support of APPs to pass the 27th amendment. The proposal includes; creation of a constitutional court, executive magistrates, transfer of judges, elimination of the protection of provincial participation in NFC, modification…
-Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (@BBhuttoZardari) November 3, 2025
“The amendment would return powers over education and population planning to the federal government and resolve the current impasse over Electoral Commission appointments.”
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said the party’s Central Executive Committee will meet on November 6, after Zardari’s return from Doha, to decide its policy.
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27th Constitutional Amendment
The 26th Constitutional Amendment, passed in October last year, has already become controversial legislation. The new rules rein in the judicial system by giving Parliament and the bureaucracy greater control over the appointment and evaluation of judges.
It ended the exclusive reliance on seniority as the basis for appointing the Chief Justice of Pakistan, required the formation of constitutional courts to hear petitions under Articles 184(3) and 199 of the Constitution, and restructured the Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) for the appointment and confirmation of judges, among other provisions.
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The amendment is currently being challenged in the Supreme Court (SC) by several petitioners who argue that the independence of the judiciary has been sacrificed by passing this amendment “in the dead of night”.
Currently, there is no comprehensive legislation on what exactly the 27th Constitutional Amendment will consist of, but talks are underway between the PPP and PMLN to draft the amendment.
When the 26th Amendment was passed last year, the ruling coalition of the PML-N and the PPP had planned to establish a Federal Constitutional Court. However, the proposal did not materialize due to the lack of a two-thirds majority in Parliament. Now that the coalition has a governing majority, it is quite possible that the idea of the Federal Constitutional Court will become a reality.
To make the Federal Constitutional Court a reality, Parliament must amend Article 175 of the Constitution, which currently states that the Supreme Court, a high court for each province and a high court for the Islamabad Capital Territory would be amended to insert the Federal Constitutional Court immediately after the mention of the SC.
