Wednesday 14 May 2014

Recent Amendments to Constitution 1973

Recent Amendments to Constitution 1973


18th AMENDMENT



1. Discretionary Powers of the President Repelled:
2. Provincial Autonomy:
3. Other Features:

i. Renaming of NWFP as Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa (KPK)
ii. Repulsion of Legal Frame Order (LFO)
iii. Ban on third time premiership and chief minister ship annulled.
iv. Central and provincial cabinets would be restricted to 11 % of the total members of National and Provincial Assemblies.
v. Members of senate are increased to 104, as four more seats are given to minorities in the senate.
vi. Appointment of Judges would be done by Judicial Commission (A controversial issuer that was solved through 19th Amendment).
19th Amendment

  1. Number of Judicial commission would be 8. Four of them would be th Judges of supreme court, chief justice of supreme court. A representative of the supreme court, Bar Association, Attorney General, Federal Law Minister.
  2. Parliament committee for judges’ appointment would consist of 8 members. Four from the senate and four from the Lower House.
  3. Recommendations would be made by the judicial commission to the parliamentary committee. If the parliamentary committee rejects the recommendations of the judicial commission. Then the parliamentary committee has to give an explanatory note for that.

20th Amendment

  1. Aimed to empowering the Election Commission of Pakistan
  2. Election Commission an independent body and will enable formulation of institutions that would act as neutral caretaker set ups.
  3. The Bill will be giving the power to the Election Commission of Pakistan to set up independent as well as unbiased structures that would be established at the center as well as the provinces so that the carrying out of fair as well as transparent elections would be done.

21st Amendment


It was just a proposal lekin abhi tak 21st amendment pass nahi hui hia, so keep in mind guys k amendments sirf 20 hi hui hian.
  1. Regarding New Provinces
  2. its objective was to create Seraiki province before elections 2013.
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