KARACHI: A key coalition partner in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s administration said Friday it was willing to support three clauses of the proposed 27th constitutional amendment, after expressing its willingness to back one related to the armed forces a day earlier, though it continued to oppose changes to a provision related to provincial rights.
According to political leaders privy to the issue, the amendment proposes creating a new constitutional court, restoring executive magistrates, revising the distribution of federal revenue among provinces under the National Finance Commission (NFC) and making changes to how senior judges and military leadership appointments are structured within the constitution.
An important part of the coalition administration, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) resumed the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting on Friday afternoon to further deliberate on the changes proposed under the constitutional amendment.
Addressing a news conference after the CEC meeting, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said the party’s leadership had now agreed on “three main points” amending Article 243 governing military command, forming a constitutional court and managing judges’ transfers through consultation.
