ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Senate and National Assembly committees on law and justice on Sunday met in Islamabad to discuss the proposed 27th constitutional amendment, a day after its approval from the federal cabinet.
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 bill proposes that the transfer of judges be handled by the Judicial Commission of Pakistan, titles given to national heroes should remain with them for lifetime, and provincial cabinet threshold of 11 percent be increased to 13 percent for smaller provinces like Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
The draft amendment, which has been opposed by an alliance of opposition parties, was referred to the Senate standing committee on law and justice for a review after Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar tabled in the upper house of parliament on Saturday.
"The remaining proposals, on which debate was not held, there will be a meeting on them," Farooq H. Naek, who heads the Senate panel, told reporters ahead of the meeting.
