The Upper House of the Parliament  the Senate also approved the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill on Thursday after voting on it for a second time amid pandemonium created by the opposition parties.The Senators present in the House first voted on the bill clause by clause and then by division.Senate Chairman Yousuf Raza Gilani announcing the result said 64 votes had been cast in favour of the bill and four against it.

“So, the motion is carried by the votes of not less than two-thirds of the total membership of the Senate, and consequently, the bill stands passed,” he declared.While clause-by-clause voting was under way, slogans of “destruction of the Constitution, unacceptable” were chanted by the Opposition parties.Earlier, the new draft of the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill was again tabled in the Senate for approval by Federal Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar on Thursday.

After approval from the Senate, the bill will be sent to the President House.The National Assembly had on Wednesday passed the 27th Constitutional Amendment Bill during a ruckus-marred session attended by political heavyweights, including Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. The bill was passed by a two-way voting process — voting by division and clause-by-clause voting.

Presented in the house for voting by Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, the bill will now be referred back to the Senate for new amendments to be debated upon again and then will be passed by the upper house. National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq said the bill received 234 votes in favour and four against. The National Assembly has passed the Constitution (Twenty-seventh Amendment) bill, 2025, envisaging the establishment of federal constitutional court with equal provincial representation.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP)