Mansoor Ali Shah, Athar Minallah tender resignations as SC judges following 27th Amendment

Senior puisne judge Mansoor Ali Shah and Supreme Court (SC) Justice Athar Minallah have tendered their resignations, Brackly News reported on Thursday.

Both the judges have forwarded their resignations — copies of which are available with Brackly News — to President Asif Ali Zardari following the enactment of the much-touted 27th Constitutional Amendment.

In his 13-page-long resignation, Justice Shah termed the amendment as “a grave assault on the Constitution of Pakistan”, which “dismantles the Supreme Court of Pakistan, subjugates the judiciary to executive control, and strikes at the very heart of our constitutional democracy”.

“By fracturing the unity of the nation’s apex court, it has crippled judicial independence and integrity, pushing the country back by decades,” he wrote. “As history bears witness, such a disfigurement of the constitutional order is unsustainable and will, in time, be reversed — but not before leaving deep institutional scars.”

This is a developing story and is being updated with further details.