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 ...

Human rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday termed the controversial 27th Constitutional Amendment — passed into law in November 2025 — a “grave threat to the independence of the judiciary and ...

We have 27 Amendments to the United States Constitution. Each is part of the Constitution. The last amendment to be ratified is the 27th Amendment. This amendment was ratified over two centuries after ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minister for Law Azam Nazeer Tarar has vehemently defended the 26th and the 27th Constitutional Amendments, claiming that the tweaks to the Constitution have begun to bear fruit.Addressing the ...

KARACHI: A storm of controversy has surrounded the recent approval of the 27th Amendment to Pakistan’s Constitution, prompting strong reactions from religious leaders and scholars across the country.

The Constitution has guaranteed our freedoms and rights for over 200 years. In this regular series, Dean Leonard Baynes with the University of Houston Law Center looks at the Amendments and how they ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. We have 27 Amendments to the ...