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Short title and commencement: This Act may be called the Constitution (Twenty First Amendment) Act, 2015. It shall come into force at once. The provisions of this Amendment Act shall remain in force for a period of two years from the date of its commencement and shall cease to form part of the Constitution and shall stand repealed on the expiration of the said period.
Provided for the appointment of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and made amendments in the number of members of the parliamentary committee for the appointment of Chief Electoral Officers at Election Commission of Pakistan. 22 December 2010 Full Text: 20th: For Free and Fair Elections. [1] 14 February 2012 Full Text: 21st
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 ...
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
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.
Pakistan adopts the 18th amendment to the Constitution, stripping President Asif Ali Zardari of key powers. The military kills 100 people in an air raid on a Taliban area in the north-west. [265] 17 April: April 2010 Kohat bombings, 58 killed. 19 April: 19 April 2010 Peshawar bombing. 25 killed. 28 May: 2010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre, 87 killed.
On 6 January 2015, both houses of the Parliament of Pakistan unanimously passed the "Constitution (Twenty-First Amendment) Act 2015", which was signed into law by the President on 7 January 2015. The Amendment provided a constitutional cover to the military courts that were established in the country for speedy trials of those involved in the ...