Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday criticised two Supreme Court judges for resigning after the passage of the 27th Constitutional Amendment, saying their “consciences only awakened after their monopoly was curtailed.”

According to Dawn, Justices Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah stepped down hours after President Asif Ali Zardari signed the amendment into law.

Asif, speaking in the National Assembly, accused the judges of having “selective amnesia”, claiming they had “forgotten their past” and were now positioning themselves as “guardians of democracy”.

Amid the opposition’s chants of “kon bachayega Pakistan; Imran Khan, Imran Khan”, echoed through the House, Asif recounted what he described as the judiciary’s historical role in decisions against former prime minister

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