Lawyers in Lahore organize a rally against 27th Amendment

Days after the 27th Amendment came into effect, a petition landed in the Sindh High Court for its annulment, while a Lahore High Court judge hearing a similar plea recused himself from hearing the case due to “personal reasons”. On the other hand, the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) or­­ganised a rally in Lahore against the new amendment and vowed to hold weekly protests against the recent constitutional tweaks that established ‘a court above the Su­preme Court’, namely the Fed­eral Constitutional Court (FCC). In the SHC, the petition filed by Barrister Ali Tahir made the federal government, the FCC chief justice and the FCC judges respondents, asking the court to declare the 27th Amendment “unconstitutional”.