nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/afb60755555a9359 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250211s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/afb60755555a9359 doi eng 342 23 Kureshi, Yasser Author aut Constitutionally Capturing Pakistan’s Constitutional Courts Kureshi, Yasser Verfassungsblog 2025-02-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In 2024, Pakistan’s parliament passed a constitutional amendment carrying out the most significant restructuring of Pakistan’s superior judiciary in its recent history. This judicial overhaul needs to be analyzed as part of a process of regime realignment. By regime realignment, I mean a ruling authoritarian elite radically altering its supportive political structure and popular bases to expand and extend its hold on power. Based on news sources and conversations with senior lawyers and judges, I will show that this plan for judicial overhaul developed iteratively through a process of intra- and inter-institutional dialogue and conflict that took place during regime realignment. CC BY-SA 4.0 Authoritarian Populism Court Packing Pakistan Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | Pakistan rule of law backsliding (DE-588)4075812-6 gnd Pakistan (DE-588)1286751969 gnd Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | Pakistan Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/constitutionally-capturing-pakistans-constitutional-courts/ raw object