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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period of two years from the date of its commencement and shall cease to form part of the Constitution and shall stand repealed on the expiration of the said period.
Enables the prime minister to obtain a vote of confidence of the people of Pakistan. 16 May 1977 Full Text: 8th: Changed Pakistan's government from a Parliamentary system to a Semi-presidential system by giving the President a number of additional powers. 11 November 1985 Full Text: 9th: Bill to impose Shariah law as the supreme law of land.
Following the passage of the 26th Amendment, the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX)'s benchmark KSE-100 rose 711 points, [22] Bloomberg stated the amendment was "seen as a major boost to the government faced with economic challenges and a barrage of protests." With Marva Khan stating it “essentially signifies a stronger coalition government going ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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]
0–9. First Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan; Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan; Third Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan