KARACHI: Former prime minister and Awaam Pakistan (AP) party convener Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday said that the 26th Amendment had dismantled the structure of checks and balances established by the Constitution, making the judiciary subordinate to the executive.
Speaking to the legal community on the invitation of the Karachi Bar Association (KBA) at the new bar room in City Courts, he said: “There’s no doubt that lawmaking is the domain of parliamentarians, but this parliament was born out of a stolen election, with the 26th Amendment as a glaring example.” “Those who were willing to pass the amendment without even reading it are now the ones who will be involved in selecting judges,” he added. The AP convener said: “Parliament can’t alter the basic structure of the Constitution. When the Constitution was being formulated, a framework was established that included a structure of checks and balances. Today that structure has been dismantled through this amendment.”
Former PM Abbasi tells lawyers incumbent parliament was born out of ‘stolen election’
Mr Abbasi said that earlier the judiciary was engaged in politics as the former chief justice was used to constituted benches on his will, but the solution was not to “cut off the head to cure a headache”…
Source: dawn.com/news/
Monday, April 27, 2026
