Islamabad, Pakistan: The Parliamentary Committee has approved the Constitutional amendment package. The committee is headed by veteran politician Khursheed Shah of the Pakistan People’s Party.
The hurried push by PMLN made the Constitutional amendment package controversial, but PPP bailed the government out when it took the initiative to contact all parties, including PTI. Now, the package will be submitted to the Cabinet for approval and then would be tabled in both houses of parliament.
Addressing a press conference after the approval of the package, Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto politely said that the ruling party’s mishandling of the constitutional amendments ignited the disapproval of the packages by many parties including JUI (F) and added that ‘unnecessary actions’ were taken by the government when PPP was negotiating with other political parties.
The good news about the 26th Constitutional Amendment, which focuses on improving the judiciary and public interest, is that all major political parties have agreed on it and there is no doubt about its approval by Parliament. In the meeting held between Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Pakistan People’s Party on Tuesday night, a consensus was reached regarding the 26th constitutional amendments, after which Maulana Fazal met with PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday night.
In the meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari, the three major parties agreed to work together regarding the constitutional amendments, which were officially announced by Maulana Fazlur Rehman. The three major parties of the country and other smaller parties have fully agreed on the constitution of Pakistan regarding the constitutional amendments and it has also been said that regardless of whether a federal constitutional court is established or a federal constitutional bench is formed. It does not matter because the objective is only to enhance and improve the efficiency of the judiciary. Whether a federal constitutional court is established or a constitutional bench is formed, on the one hand, it will be possible to hear the constitutional and legal cases in the courts separately, while the courts, especially in the higher judiciary, deal with day-to-day cases. It will help reduce the backlog that exists. According to legal experts, it is important here that thousands of cases are pending in the Supreme Court as well as other courts across the country. If a constitutional court or a constitutional bench is formed, it will go a long way in reducing these figures.
According to legal experts, it is very important to clarify here that the major objectives of the Constitutional Bench or the Constitutional Federal Court have been achieved by the supervision of the judiciary through the formation of a high-powered commission, so to say that through this 26 constitutional amendments on the judiciary A ban is being imposed or a circle is being tightened around it, it may just be propaganda, but there is no truth in it.
Through the constitutional amendment package, the judiciary will be empowered more and time will prove that the performance of the judiciary will improve with the amendment package the most important thing is that with the formation of the federal constitutional court or bench, when urgent cases will start to be resolved so, people will directly benefit from it
