Pakistan’s latest constitutional amendment, which transfers the Supreme Court’s authority over constitutional questions to a new Federal Constitutional Court and elevates the army chief to a constitutionally entrenched post with lifetime legal immunity, is widely described as the final blow to an already fragile democracy. The familiar storyline is straightforward: a besieged liberal judiciary is being strangled by an overmighty military. There is an important truth in that account. But it also omits a more awkward dimension. For roughly four decades, Pakistan’s higher courts have operated within an Islamized constitutional framework they did not design but have repeatedly enforced, elaborated, and legitimized. Read Full Article ».
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The Crisis of Governance in Pakistan
