Asim Munir's merciless coup de grâce to Pakistan’s Constitution

Pakistan’s 27th Constitutional Amendment (2025) marks the most catastrophic rupture in its constitutional history. By granting lifetime immunity to the President and the Army Chief, centralising all armed services under a new unified command, crippling the Supreme Court’s authority, and abolishing judicial review of constitutional amendments, it does not reform the Constitution; it maims and mutilates it.

This moment represents the triumph of militarism over constitutionalism, of fascistic hierarchy over the dream of classical liberalism, of command over consent, and of vertical barracks authority over horizontal democratic power-sharing in Pakistan. Presiding over this historic mutation is Field Marshal Asim Munir — Pakistan’s new Caesar, the terminator of the Republic. The entire conste