Abu Bakar Khan is a JURIST staff correspondent and a lawyer based in Pakistan.

On November 13, 2025, the 27th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan completed a legislative journey that lasted less than a week. Introduced in the Senate on November 10 and approved the same day, the amendment passed through the National Assembly with revisions on November 12, and returned to the Senate for final approval on November 13. President Asif Ali Zardari assented to the amendment that same night, and it was immediately published in the official gazette. What began as a rapid parliamentary exercise ended as one of the most far-reaching constitutional restructurings in Pakistan’s recent history.

The 27th Amendment comes just one year after the controversial 26th Amendment —one that had al

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