The party’s central executive committee will meet on November 6 to decide on its policy
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari during an interview with Sky News on June 9, 2025. Photo: Sky News/ YouTube
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) delegation, led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, has met with Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari to seek support for the approval of the 27th Constitutional Amendment.
The proposed amendment includes the creation of a constitutional court, restoration of executive judges and the power to transfer judges, said Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. It also seeks to end the protection of provincial shares in the NFC Award and proposes changes to Article 243, he said in a post on X.
PMLN delegation led by Prime Minister @CMShehbaz called on @AAliZardari & myself. Requested PPPs support in the adoption of 27. change. The proposal includes; creation of constitutional court, executive judges, transfer of judges, removal of protection of provincial share in NFC, amendment of…
— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (@BBhuttoZardari) 3 November 2025
“The amendment will give the federal government powers over education and population planning and resolve the ongoing deadlock over appointments to the Election Commission”.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari noted that the party’s central executive committee will meet on November 6 after Zardari returns from Doha to decide on his policy.
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27th constitutional amendment
The 26th constitutional amendment, passed last October, has already become a controversial piece of legislation. The new rules slow down 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 a basis for the appointment of the Chief Justice of Pakistan, required the formation of constitutional benches 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 claim that the independence of the judiciary has been sacrificed by passing this amendment “in the dead of night.”
Currently, there is no real comprehensive legislation on what exactly the 27th Amendment will consist of, but discussions are underway between the PPP and the PMLN to put the amendment together.
When the 26th Amendment was passed last year, the ruling coalition of PML-N and PPP had planned to establish a Federal Constitutional Court. However, the proposal failed due to the lack of a two-thirds majority in parliament. Now that the coalition has a ruling majority, the idea of the Federal Constitutional Court may very well become a reality.
To make the Federal Constitutional Court a reality, Parliament must amend the Constitution’s Article 175, which currently provides for the Supreme Court, a Supreme Court for each province, and a Supreme Court for the Islamabad Capital Territory will be amended to insert the Federal Constitutional Court immediately after the mention of the SC.
