ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): Chief Justice Yahya Afridi has called a full court meeting on the 27th Constitutional Amendment today (Friday).
The full court meeting will be held before Friday prayers tomorrow, and the full court meeting will discuss the 27th Constitutional Amendment.
After three senior judges of the Supreme Court wrote a letter, Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Yahya Afridi called a full court meeting on the 27th Constitutional Amendment.
Senior Supreme Court judges, Justice Mansoor Ali Shah and Justice Athar Minallah, have tendered their resignations shortly after President Asif Ali Zardari signed the 27th Constitutional Amendment, which includes major judicial overhauls.
Both judges have sent their resignations to President Asif Ali Zardari following the enactment of the much-touted 27th Constitutional Amendment.
In his 13-page-long resignation, Justice Shah termed the amendment a grave assault on the Constitution of Pakistan, which dismantles the Supreme Court of Pakistan, subjugates the judiciary to executive control, and strikes at the very heart of our constitutional democracy.
Separately, in his resignation letter, Justice Minallah protested against the 27th Constitutional Amendment, declaring that the Constitution he swore to protect no longer exists.
Justice wrote that his oath as a judge was not merely to a constitution in form, but to the Constitution in spirit. He said that despite his repeated attempts to believe otherwise, “what is left of it is a mere shadow — one that breathes neither its spirit, nor speaks the words of the people to whom it belongs.”
He revealed that prior to the passage of the 27th Amendment, he had written to the CJP Afridi expressing serious concerns about its implications for the constitutional order. However, he lamented that his fears had now been realised “against a canvas of selective silence and inaction.”
