ISLAMABAD:

Supreme Court judge Jamal Khan Mandokhail has said he cannot understand how an article of the Constitution, Article 191-A, can be ignored while hearing the petitions challenging the 26th Constitutional Amendment.

Article 191-A, introduced by the 26th Constitutional Amendment, outlines a new process for the Supreme Court's practice and procedure, particularly concerning the constitution of benches.

"How any constitutional article be sidelined?" Justice Manokhail, who is a part of an eight-member constitutional bench (CB) of the Supreme Court hearing petitions filed against the amendment, said on Tuesday.

Justice Ayesha Malik, however, noted that there are legal precedents in this regard. "There are judicial precedents explaining the process when a provision itself is under ch

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