PPP starts work on constitutional amendment draft

KARACHI (92 News) – The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has started preparing the constitutional amendment draft, and an informal committee has also been formed for consultation on it.

PPP Secretary General Nayyar Hussain Bukhari, Farooq H. Naik, and Sherry Rahman will be part of the informal committee. Other senior PPP leaders will also be part of the consultation in the preparation of the constitutional amendment draft.

After the initial draft is completed, it will be presented to PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. The PPP draft will also be shared with the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).

The PPP chairman objected to the amendment in Article 8. The amendment to Article 8 will not be part of the PPP draft.

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The PPP draft will include judicial reforms. In the draft, suggestions will be given regarding the establishment of the constitutional court.

On Tuesday, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari vowed to introduce judicial reforms in the country, stating that the establishment of a federal constitutional court was a need of the hour.

While addressing a ceremony at the Sindh High Court Bar Association in Karachi, Bilawal said that a federal constitutional court, having representation from all provinces, was essential and a need of the hour.

The PPP chairman said that the current judicial system magnified 15 percent constitutional cases to 90 percent, adding that constitutional reforms were not a new thing.

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“We will bring judicial reforms. Legislation and amending the Constitution cannot be done through courts,” he declared.

“The institution that was supposed to do justice in fact did the opposite and ordered the hanging of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto on the orders of a military dictator,” he said while referring to the Supreme Court (SC).

He said that judges, no doubt, always allowed dictators to violate the Constitution.

He added that the Supreme Court had tried to snatch the power to amend the Constitution from the Parliament, but the power belonged to the Parliament.