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The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Bench (CB) on Thursday ruled that the eight-judge majority judgment announced on July 12, 2024, was not justified in granting relief to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) by invoking Article 187 of the Constitution that empowers the court to do complete justice when no issue regarding the grant of reserved seats to the party was pending before it. Headed by Justice Aminuddin Khan, the CB through a short order on June 26 had overturned the July 12, 2024, majority judgment by declaring the PTI eligible for reserved seats for women and non-Muslims in the national and the provincial assemblies. In its detailed verdict issued on Thursday, 10 judges of the 12-judge CB held that there was no justification in giving relief to the PTI under Article 187, especially when appeals were filed and pursued by the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) under Article 185 (3) of the Constitution. The facts and circumstances of this case did not require application of Article 187, the detailed judgment sa...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan firmly rejects all baseless allegations, reaffirming that its decisions are guided solely by the Constitution, not by pressure or propaganda.

ISLAMABAD - The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Friday rejected the ruling of Supreme Court’s Constitutional Bench in reserved seats review case, describing it as a flagrant breach of the party’s constitutional rights, a murder of justice, and a direct assault on the Constitution and democracy.

ISLAMABAD: Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar on Monday observed that the Constitutional Bench (CB) will never hand out a decision in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) judge’s seniority dispute that may invite criticism that the top court had amended the Constitution on its own. The observation came when senior counsel Barrister Salahuddin Ahmed, on behalf of five IHC judges, highlighted changes in the IHC Administrative Committee. At this, Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan raised an objection, stating that the issue raised by the counsel was not challenged by anyone before the CB, nor can it be discussed in rebuttal arguments. Headed by Justice Mazhar, a five-judge CB had taken up a joint petition filed by five IHC judges — Justices Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Babar Sattar, Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan and Saman Rafat Imtiaz – pleading that three transferred judges should not be treated as IHC judges until they take a fresh oath under Article 194, read in conjunction with Schedule III ...

United States President Donald Trump said in a television interview airing on Sunday that he does not know whether he must uphold the US Constitution. He also said he is not seriously considering running for a third White House term, after musing publicly over an idea clearly barred by the nation’s founding legal document. “I don’t know,” Trump responded when the host of NBC News programme ‘Meet the Press’, Kristen Welker, asked directly whether he believes he needs to uphold the supreme law of the land. Asked specifically whether American citizens and non-citizens alike deserve the due process of law, as the US Constitution states, Trump said: “I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.” The president’s aggressive moves to deport undocumented migrants — some without the benefit of a court hearing — have drawn widespread criticism, but Trump insists it is necessary in the face of what he has declared to be a “national emergency”. The suggestion of possibly seeking a third term in office has been sharply questioned by le...

ISLAMABAD - The Chief Justice of Pakistan Thursday said that the Constitution embodies the right to dignity, fair remuneration and just and humane conditions of work as fundamental principles of policy.

All proposals for a ceasefire and ending the war that do not meet the national interests and the Constitution of Ukraine will not be considered by the Ukrainian side.

La devise exprimée dans la Constitution de chaque État, quand elle existe, fixe les valeurs, l'identité, bref les fondements de l' État en question. Que les Malgaches aient changé quatre fois de devise, depuis l'indépendance lors de l'établissement de ses constitutions successives, n'est-il pas significatif de l'incapacité de la Nation Malgache à se fixer fermement une ligne de gouvernance de l'État cohérente et pérenne … Et d'assurer sa continuité. La devise de la Première République de Madagascar (...) - Editorial

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has delivered a speech during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada on Constitution Day.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed the law on new rules for acquiring citizenship, which provides for exams on the knowledge of the Ukrainian language, the history of Ukraine, and the Constitution.