{"id":75154,"date":"2025-11-13T02:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/12\/pakistan-parliament-constitutional-amendment-bill-asim-munir-supreme-court"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:05:43","slug":"pakistani-parliament-votes-to-give-army-chief-new-powers-and-legal-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75154","title":{"rendered":"Pakistani parliament votes to give army chief new powers and legal immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say constitutional amendment, which will also limit supreme court\u2019s independence, is \u2018funeral for democracy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s parliament has passed a controversial amendment to its constitution that will expand the powers of the army chief and grant him lifelong legal immunity while limiting the independence of the supreme court, in a move critics described as a \u201cfuneral for democracy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Field Marshal Asim Munir, Pakistan\u2019s powerful army chief who is widely seen as a de facto ruler of the country, was the main benefactor from the 27th constitutional amendment, which was passed by the parliamentary lower house on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/12\/pakistan-parliament-constitutional-amendment-bill-asim-munir-supreme-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say constitutional amendment, which will also limit supreme court\u2019s independence, is \u2018funeral for democracy\u2019Pakistan\u2019s parliament has passed a controversial amendment to its constitution that will expand the powers of the army chief and grant h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75155,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75154\/revisions\/75155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}