As he praised departing Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), stated that no other chief justice could have implemented the 26th Constitutional Amendment.
With the help of allies like the PPP, the Shehbaz Sharif-led government passed controversial legislation in both the lower and upper houses of parliament that established constitutional benches, changed the process for appointing the Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), and set the tenure of the position.
Bilawal justified the legislation’s timing in an interview with BBC Urdu, arguing that it was “person-specific” and came at a “questionable time,” according to the opposition.
