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Pakistan connected Sunday (November 30, 2025) rejected UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk’s interest astir the 27th law amendment arsenic "ungrounded and misplaced apprehensions".
In a connection issued successful Geneva connected Friday (November 28, 2025), the quality rights main said the latest law amendment, similar the 26th amendment past year, had been adopted without wide consultation and statement with the ineligible assemblage and wider civilian society.
He added that the “hastily adopted” amendments undermined judicial independency and raised concerns astir subject accountability.
The Foreign Office successful a property merchandise said that “like each parliamentary democracies, each authorities arsenic good arsenic immoderate amendment to the constitution stay the exclusive domain of the elected representatives of the radical of Pakistan”.
“While Pakistan gives owed value to the enactment of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, it is regrettable that Pakistan's views and crushed realities were not reflected successful the connection issued,” it said.
It said Pakistan remains “fully committed to protecting, promoting and upholding quality rights, quality dignity, basal freedoms and the regularisation of instrumentality arsenic enshrined successful the constitution”.
“We impulse the High Commissioner to respect the sovereign decisions of Pakistan's parliament and debar commentary that reflects governmental bias and misinformation,” it said.
Earlier this month, Pakistan's associated parliamentary committee of the Senate and National Assembly approved the 27th law amendment measure with the absorption alleging that the authorities was sounding “the decease knell for the Supreme Court”.
The amendment proposes a alteration successful Article 243, seeking to abolish the 'Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee' and present a caller 'Chief of Defence Forces'.
Other proposals nether the aforesaid amendment see establishing a Federal Constitutional Court and reducing the powers of the Supreme Court.
