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Amendment of First Schedule of the Constitution: In the Constitution, in the First Schedule, in sub-part III of Part I, after entry 5, the following new entries shall be added, namely:- The Pakistan Army Act, 1952 (XXXXIX of 1952). The Pakistan Air Force Act, 1953 (VI of 1953). The Pakistan Navy Ordinance, 1961 (XXXV of 1961).
In 2015, National Assembly passed the 21st Amendment and created the military courts for the period of 2 years. The period of two years was expired on 6 January 2017 hence this 23rd Amendment was passed to re-establish the military courts for further two years till 6 January 2019.
Military courts were again instituted by the Nawaz Sharif ministry in the aftermath of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre carried out by the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, with the aim of dispensing speedy justice to terrorists. The move was enabled by the passage of the 21st Constitutional Amendment in 2015 with a sunset clause of 2 years. [13]
In the 2015 District Bar Association (Rawalpindi) v Federation of Pakistan case, the question of "unconstitutional constitutional amendments" was put before a 17-member bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan that challenged specific clauses of the 18th and 21st amendments. Namely, the anti-defection and judicial appointment clauses of the ...
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) called off the protests and participated in the APC. However, it abstained from voting the bill and amendment. Jamiat Ulema-e Islam (F) (JUI F) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) also abstained from voting. JI proposed that the word religion should be omitted from the text of the bill.
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]
Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, a 2015 amendment that established speedy trial military courts for terrorist offenses; Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, a 1933 amendment that ended Prohibition; 21st Amendment Brewery, a brewery in San Leandro, California
In these amendments, the Twenty-Fifth amendment incorporated the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas into the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 2024, the Twenty-Sixth Constitutional Amendment Act was enacted on October 21st, introducing landmark reforms to Pakistan's judicial system, with a focus on the Supreme Court and High Courts.