{"id":2208,"date":"2025-11-16T07:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2025-11-16T07:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:20:11","slug":"pakistans-army-chief-granted-lifetime-immunity-from-arrest-and-trial-and-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/?p=2208","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s army chief granted lifetime immunity from arrest and trial and trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"citation-5\">The rule of law in Pakistan has been sharply challenged by a recent parliamentary vote. In a highly controversial move, <\/span><b><span class=\"citation-5\">Pakistan&#8217;s Parliament<\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-5\"> passed a sweeping constitutional amendment granting <\/span><b><span class=\"citation-5\">lifetime immunity from arrest and criminal prosecution<\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-5\"> to the current <\/span><b><span class=\"citation-5\">Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir<\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-5 citation-end-5\">, a protection previously reserved only for the head of state. This legislative maneuver simultaneously promotes him to the new, lifelong position of <b>Chief of Defence Forces<\/b>, placing all armed services under his permanent command. Critics and opposition groups are decrying the move as a <b>definitive step toward military authoritarianism<\/b>, citing the severe undermining of judicial authority through the creation of a new Federal Constitutional Court above the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rule of law in Pakistan has been sharply challenged by a recent parliamentary vote. In a highly controversial move, Pakistan&#8217;s Parliament passed a sweeping constitutional amendment granting lifetime immunity from arrest and criminal prosecution to the current Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, a protection previously reserved only for the head of state. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,49,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-asia","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/channeljuly36.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}