Its Article 184(3) suo motu jurisdiction has made it unusually interventionist, and the 26th constitutional amendment of 2024 restructured judicial appointments and created a separate constitutional bench, significantly changing how constitutional cases reach it. The court has historically both validated and later condemned military interventions, and its 2009 restoration of deposed judges after the lawyers' movement is a defining episode in its institutional history.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- supreme
- Court type
- Apex court
- Jurisdiction
- Appeals from the High Courts, original jurisdiction under Article 184(3) on questions of public importance involving fundamental rights, advisory jurisdiction on presidential reference, and a Shariat Appellate Bench for appeals from the Federal Shariat Court.
- Seat
- Islamabad
- Established
- 1956
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