ISLAMABAD: The Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP), a multi-party opposition alliance, on Saturday announced a nationwide protest campaign against the proposed 27th constitutional amendment, hours after the government tabled it in the upper house of parliament.
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.
The government held consultations with coalition parties, including the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q), in a bid to secure the two-thirds parliamentary majority required for constitutional changes and presented the bill in Senate after approval from the cabinet.
Mahmood Khan Achakzai, a senior member of the opposition alliance, accused the government of "shaking the foundations of the constitution," saying they had no choice but to launch a protest movement after the government's tabling of the amendment in parliament.
"The constitution is being tampered with. Our own parliament is attacking the constitution, so we have no other option, we will go to the people," he said in a post on X.
