P akistan has been buzzing with rumours around the 27th Amendment for months, but the cat came out of the bag this week when President Asif Ali Zardari and his son Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari received a visit from a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) team headed by Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

In a post on X, Bhutto-Zardari said they shared a draft of proposed changes that relate to management and disciplining of the judiciary, distribution of resources between the federal and provincial governments, and alterations to Article 243 of the 1973 Constitution, pertaining to control of the armed forces.

Reactions were swift. Pushtun leader Mohsin Dawar called the 27th Amendment “a blatant attempt to undo the 18th Amendment, long the bane of Punjab’s civil-military elite”. He reminded p

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