At least nine senior advocates including two former puisne judges of Supreme Court of Pakistan and the Sindh High court wrote an open letter in the name of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Yahya Afridi, urging him to “call a Full Court Meeting to discuss this proposed (27th Constitutional) Amendment Act.”

It also called for the “appropriate response” by the Supreme Court to the federal government in the form of “inputs and suggestions.” They compare the proposed amendment with denuding the Supreme Court of Pakistan from its constitutional jurisdiction.

The letter the proposed 27th Constitutional Amendment as the “greatest threat to the Supreme Court of Pakistan since its establishment in the year 1956.”

The proposed amendment known as the 27th Amendment in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan proposes the formation of a new Federal Constitutional Court, superseding the present Supreme Court of Pakistan, the highest judicial body in the country.