Unbridled power for Munir: UN raises red flag; Pak acts indignant

Brazening it out, Pakistan connected Sunday dismissed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk’s concerns implicit the country’s caller 27th law amendment, urging him to debar remarks that bespeak “political bias and misinformation.

”“Like each parliamentary democracies, each authorities arsenic good arsenic immoderate amendment to the constitution stay the exclusive domain of the elected representatives of the radical of Pakistan. While Pakistan gives owed value to the enactment of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, it is regrettable that Pakistan's views and crushed realities were not reflected successful the connection issued,” the Foreign Office (FO) said successful a statement.The FO added that Pakistan remains “fully committed to protecting, promoting and upholding quality rights, quality dignity, basal freedoms and the regularisation of instrumentality arsenic enshrined successful the constitution”.“It is regrettable that Pakistan's views and crushed realities were not reflected successful the remarks. We impulse the High Commissioner to respect the sovereign decisions of Pakistan's parliament and debar commentary that reflects governmental bias and misinformation," it stated.

In a connection connected Friday, Türk criticised Islamabad for adopting the amendment without “broad consultation” with ineligible experts and civilian society, informing that the “hastily adopted” changes could undermine judicial independency and rise questions astir subject accountability.The 27th amendment has stirred aggravated governmental statement wrong the neighbouring nation. On November 12, a associated parliamentary committee of the Senate and National Assembly approved the bill, prompting the absorption to pass that the authorities was sounding “the decease knell for the Supreme Court”.The amendment alters Article 243 by abolishing the station of Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) and replacing it with a caller Chief of Defence Forces (CDF). It besides proposes establishing a Federal Constitutional Court and reducing definite powers of the Supreme Court.The archetypal CDF volition beryllium Asim Munir, the Pakistan Army main who was “promoted” to the five-star Field Marshal fertile pursuing the struggle with India successful May.According to Dawn, the Pakistan authorities is yet to notify the assignment of the CDF, adjacent arsenic the bureau of the CJCSC formally ended connected Thursday.(With PTI inputs)