With the highest four-star appointment now completed, officials expect a wider reshuffle of principal staff officers and corps commanders in the coming weeks.
In 2007, live television turned a sacked chief justice into a national uprising that ended Gen Musharraf’s rule. A lawyer who marched then, and resigned from the Supreme Court in protest last year, explains why that isn’t happening now.
Insiders say JCP will convene series of meetings next month; transfers have already been discussed informally among high court chief justices on sidelines of NJPMC moot.
Gen Mirza has retired as the 18th and final occupant of the CJCSC office; COAS Field Marshal Asim Munir set to assume role of first chief of defence forces.
Lawyers give govt 15 days for withdrawal of plea; KBA president says "we reject 27th Amendment"; blocked roads around CM House inconvenience commuters.
Jinnah's preference for a federal court with narrow, constitution-specific jurisdiction was born out of political necessity, not constitutional philosophy.
Human rights body expresses concern over 27th Amendment, says tweak "further weakens essential checks and balances at a time when public trust in state institutions is fragile".
