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Increased the term appointed for quota system as per 1973 Constitution from 20 to 40 years. 1999 Full Text: 17th: Made changes dealing with the office of the President and the reversal of the effects of the Thirteenth Amendment. 2003 Full Text: 18th: Removed the power of President of Pakistan to dissolve the Parliament unilaterally.
The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, known officially as the Constitution (Twenty-sixth Amendment) Act, 2024, is an amendment to the constitution of Pakistan passed by the parliament between 20–21 October, 2024, [1] coming into force with presidential assent the same day. [2]
The 19th Amendment has taken powers from the Chief Justice of Pakistan for the appointment of ad hoc judges and transferred them to the Judicial Commission [3] of Pakistan (JCP). The President will now carry out the appointments on the recommendation of the JCP, under the new law 4 instead of 2 most senior judges will be appointed in the JCP.
The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں آٹھویں ترمیم) allowed the President to unilaterally dissolve the National Assembly and elected governments. The National Assembly of Pakistan amended the Constitution of Pakistan in 1985 and the law stayed on the books until its repeal in 1997.
The amendments removed nearly all institutional checks and balances on the Prime Minister's power, by effectively removing the legal remedies by which he could be dismissed. Nawaz Sharif's government became increasingly unpopular after the passage of these amendments, even though it was the election of his Pakistan Muslim League by a heavy ...
The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں سترہویں ترمیم) was an amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan passed in December 2003, after over a year of political wrangling between supporters and opponents of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who in 2024 was declared a traitor by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The First Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan (Urdu: آئین پاکستان میں پہلی ترمیم) is a part of the Constitution of Pakistan which came on effect on 4 May 1974. The official document of the First Amendment is called the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1974. The First Amendment redefined the international and ...
The Twenty-second Amendment of the Constitution of Pakistan, officially known as the Constitution (Twenty-second Amendment) Act, 2016, sets to amend the procedure for the appointment, qualifications and other prerequisites for the chief election commissioner (CEC) and four members of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).