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Bhutto is always presented as a great democratic leader but let's see how he manipulated laws and the inviolable and supreme constitution he himself drafted. (1/n)

1st Ammendent. Though apparently the ammendment was to remove the mention of East Pakistan, it had a sinister objective. Bhutto's government getting a control over the freedom of association (Article 17). No political entity could exist without his approval. (2/n)

3rd Amendment curtailed the rights of detainees,extended the powers of detaining authorities. The safeguards against preventive detention were reduced and the period for preventive detention was extended from 1 month to 3 months without production before a review board. (3/n)

Now, any person could be detained indefinitely if govt deemed they were acting against Pakistan (recipe for political victimization with a person as ambitious as Bhutto).
Bhutto government also amended the Code of Criminal Procedure... (4/n)

and prohibited the courts from granting bail before arrest to a person unless a case was registered against him.
Such bails before arrest were a safeguard for political workers to save themselves from victimization. (5/n)

A court could approve such bails even if no case had been registered but if a victim nonetheless anticipated that a case would be filed and he would be arrested before approaching the court.
As if all this was not enough,... (6/n)

Z A Bhutto introduced the Fourth Amendment to the constitution further curtailing the writ jurisdiction of the high courts, under Article 199, in cases of preventive detention. Now the courts were not allowed to grant bail to a person or to prohibit such detention. (7/n)

After these changes, no high court had the jurisdiction to come to the aid of political victims and could not grant such people bail during detention. 
The Fifth Amendment to the 1973 constitution of Pakistan was introduced in September 1976, amending 16 articles and... (8/n)

the First Schedule of the constitution. This amendment further restricted the powers of the high courts under Article 199. Now for the first time the judges themselves were affected by these changes in several ways: the term of the chief justice of the (9/n)

of the Supreme and high courts were to be determined not solely by age but also by a fixed period as an alternative. Now, the government also had the power to transfer a judge – without his consent – from one high court to another. (10/n)

The Sixth Amendment was passed in December 1976 in the last session before the general elections, specifically to give a chance to Chief Justice Yaqub Ali to continue after his superannuation. Not long ago Bhutto himself had deprived the judges of their chance to continue (11/n)

chief justice, even if they were as young just 55. Now Bhutto wanted to allow Justice Yaqub Ali to continue after the age of 65, on the pretext that he had not completed his term as chief justice. (12/n)

Bhutto also made a private paramilitary for himself called the "Federal Security Force" to target his political opponents. Murder of Dr Nazir Ahmad, a JI MNA was blamed on FSF along with many other violent offences. (13/n)

He is the only civilian chief martial law administrator and only unelected PM in Pakistan's history but this guy is presented as a symbol of democracy in Pakistan. He also declared Ahmadis non-Muslims which makes sense if someone has a religious or semi-religious (14/n)

political basis, but for a guy presented as "progressive", it is hypocrisy.

Source:
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/501282-south-asian-politics-in-the-1970s
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