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LONDON: Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has signalled his support for a written Constitution for the UK, which unlike most countries, does not have one authoritative document. Since entering office just two weeks ago, the former mayor of Greater Manchester has made devolution of power to regional authorities a focus of his administration. “In the end, I think it does start to point towards a new constitutional settlement,” Burnham said of his devolution plans. Calling for a “new clear set of principles about how this country should be run”, Burnham said there was a need for a written Constitution – something he has called for before he was prime minister. “It’s wrong that people are left arguing for things that are just fundamental… and the lack of a Constitution disempowers places in that situation,” said Burnham. Unlike most countries around the world, Britain does not have a written constitution. Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2026

Lors du culte œcuménique organisé à Analakely, le président de la Refondation a enfilé son habit de « Mpiandry ». Deux cultes en une semaine Le colonel Michaël Randrianirina enchaîne les appels à la prière ainsi que les participations aux différents rassemblements religieux organisés récemment dans le pays. Le 24 juillet dernier, le président de […] L’article Constitution de la 5e République : Vers la suppression de la laïcité de l’Etat est apparu en premier sur Midi Madagasikara.

Le parti Liana Fahasoavana ny Nosiko (LFN Madagascar) veut inscrire l’humanisme social dans la Constitution de la République de Madagascar. Une orientation qui place la dignité humaine au centre de son projet politique. Le paysage politique malgache accueille un nouveau mouvement. Le parti LFN a présenté officiellement ses orientations lors d’une conférence de presse tenue […] L’article LFN : Inscrire l’humanisme social dans la Constitution de la République de Madagascar est apparu en premier sur Midi Madagasikara.

Constitution garantit Le parti Tiako i Madagasikara (TIM) a soufflé sa 24e bougie samedi dernier à Faravohitra. Une célébration empreinte de solennité, qui résonne comme un avant-goût du jubilé d’argent que l’ancien président Marc Ravalomanana compte célébrer en grande pompe l’année prochaine, en pleine effervescence préélectorale. Comme à son accoutumée, la formation à la cravate […] L’article Marc Ravalomanana : « Seul le respect de la Constitution garantit la confiance mutuelle » est apparu en premier sur Midi Madagasikara.

Ukraine will need to revise a number of provisions of its Constitution as part of its future accession to the European Union and the process of aligning national legislation with EU law.

Soldiers of the 71st Separate Airborne Brigade of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dropped leaflets from drones onto the positions of Russian invaders to mark Constitution Day, calling on them to surrender.

Foreign ministries, defense ministries and embassies of countries around the world in Ukraine are issuing statements congratulating Ukraine on the occasion of Constitution Day.

Constitution guarantees religious freedom, says PM

ISLAMABAD: Mahmood Khan Achakzai, head of the Tehreek Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) and chairman of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, lamented on Saturday that the Constitution and the law “have been torn to shreds” in the country and asked that the sovereignty of Parliament be acknowledged. He expressed these views in the inaugural address at the two-day national conference titled “Protection of the Consensus Constitution: The Need of the Hour and a Way Forward through Collective Wisdom”, organised by TTAP - an alliance of opposition parties. The opposition alliance had announced the national conference after Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry assailed Imran Khan for creating and spreading an “anti-army” rhetoric, stating that such narratives were now out of the realm of politics and had become a “national security threat”. “The current situation in the country is such that the Constitution and the law have been torn to shreds, and raising one’s voice agai...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said does not see the need to amend Ukraine's Constitution to remove the country's course toward NATO membership.

L'avis de la Haute Cour du 16 décembre 2025 reconfigure la portée de l'interdiction de changement de groupe politique en cours de mandat. Ilaibaloda En admettant que des députés puissent quitter le groupe politique au nom duquel ils ont été élus, sans encourir la déchéance prévue à l'article 72 de la Constitution, l'avis du 16 décembre 2025 de la Haute Cour Constitutionnelle marque une rupture jurisprudentielle significative. Cette relecture permissive affaiblit la portée normative de (…) - Tribune libre

ISLAMABAD - As the federal capital is abuzz with rumours of imposing governor’ rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa creating unrest in the PTI’s provincial government, the federal government yesterday explained that the imposition of governor’s rule in a province is an option provided by the Constitution, even as KP Chief.

Chief Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court, Aminuddin Khan, said on Friday that protecting fundamental rights is the top priority of the constitutional court, and that the Constitution will be interpreted with transparency, freedom, and integrity.

The opposition alliance Tehreek-i-Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) on Friday vowed to vigorously protest through all democratic means to restore the Constitution to its original form in the wake of the passage of the contentious 26th and 27th amendments. President Asif Ali Zardari gave his assent to the contentious 27th Constitutional Amendment on Thursday, enacting it into law. The TTAP had already ann­o­unced a nationwide protest movement aga­i­nst the am­­end­ment since Sunday and urged the people to take a stand agai­nst the “extremely dark and dangerous” change in the Constitution. While the 26th Amendment was passed by Parliament during an overnight session in October 2024, with the PTI claiming seven of its lawmakers were abducted to gain their vote as the party opposed the legislation. The Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) had also alleged its two senators were being pressured, with both later defying party line to vote in the tweaks’ favour. In a post on X today, the TTAP said it was holding a...

Supreme Court Justices Mansoor Ali Shah and Athar Minallah handed in their resignations, hours after the contentious 27th Constitutional Amendment was signed into law by President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday. Both judges had called on Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi in separate letters to summon a full court meeting and judicial conference to hold a debate on the 27th Constitutional Amendment. In his letter to the president today, Justice Shah assailed the amendment as “a grave assault on the Constitution of Pakistan”, which “dismantles the Supreme Court of Pakistan, subjugates the judiciary to executive control, and strikes at the very heart of our constitutional democracy”. “By fracturing the unity of the nation’s apex court, it has crippled judicial independence and integrity, pushing the country back by decades,” he wrote. “As history bears witness, such a disfigurement of the constitutional order is unsustainable and will, in time, be reversed - but not before leaving deep institutional scars.” T...

PTI Senator Ali Zafar detailed during a Senate session on Sunday five points that he said constituted the fundamental spirit of the 1973 Constitution and warned that altering the “balance of these five pillars” could lead to “major chaos”. The session was convened today — on a Sunday in a rare move — with a one-point agenda to deliberate on the bill for the 27th Constitutional Amendment. The 26-page Constitution (Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Act, 2025 was tabled in the Senate yesterday amid the opposition’s outcry over the pace and scope of the proposed changes, just hours after its approval by the federal cabinet. Senate Chairperson Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani presided over the session today, which began with the House remembering Allama Iqbal on his birth anniversary. Later, the house also passed a resolution in relevance to Iqbal Day. During the session, PTI lawmakers had pictures of their party founder Imran Khan placed on their desks. At the beginning of the proceedings, a PTI leader raised an objection, to whi...

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has called the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment a “conspiracy against the Constitution” and refused to become part of the proceedings of the committee established to discuss the bill. “The proposed 27th Amendment is nothing short of a conspiracy against the Constitution. The entire process is being carried out in haste, without consultation or deliberation, in complete disregard of democratic norms and parliamentary traditions,” Senator Ali Zafar said while talking to Dawn. “These amendments strike at the very foundation of the constitutional structure by undermining the independence of the judiciary and eroding the delicate balance of powers that the 1973 Constitution so carefully created,” he said. “Any change to the Constitution must come only through broad-based national consensus, not through secret drafts or executive dictates. The Constitution belongs to the people of Pakistan, not to any government of the day, and no one has the right to mutilate it for politic...

Supreme Court judge Justice Athar Minallah on Friday termed extra-judicial killings, custodial torture and the excessive use of force as the most “intolerable crimes” in a democratic society, calling them the “worst form of violation” of the Constitution. In his dissenting note on the court’s judgement issued in a case pertaining to the killing of Mohammad Hayat Mirza, a Karachi University student, in Turbat, Justice Minallah said that there can be “no tolerance” for such acts and conduct by law enforcement agencies and its member. In 2020, police arrested a soldier of the Frontier Corps (FC), Shadiullah, on charges of killing Mirza and started an investigation after registering a case against him. The case was registered against the suspect on the complaint of Mohammad Murad Baloch, the brother of the deceased. The convicted had appealed to the SC following his sentencing by a trial court. The trial court, in a judgment on January 20, 2021, convicted the appellant under Section 302(b) (premeditated murder) o...

Peshawar - Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Faisal Karim Kundi on Thursday said that lawyers have always played a vital role in politics and in the struggle for the supremacy of the Constitution.

Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail has stated that the formation of Supreme Court benches will be carried out strictly in accordance with the Constitution and the law, not based on individual preferences.