What Pakistan Supreme Court judge Mansoor Ali Shah wrote in his resignation letter

T his week, Pakistan passed the 27th Amendment to its 1973 Constitution. While the impact of this far-reaching overhaul is still being felt, the deepest blow has perhaps come from the resignation of the senior most judges in the Supreme Court of Pakistan . It’s a rare mark of dissent from the upper echelons of the country’s now subsumed judiciary.

Apart from granting the military sweeping powers and giving Field Marshal Asim Munir lifetime legal immunity, the 27th constitutional amendment, adopted this week, saw the creation of a new Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) . The body now has singular authority on constitutional interpretation, judicial review, and disputes involving fundamental rights—powers that were once with the Supreme court.

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