Pakistan, May 6 -- The Supreme Court of Pakistan has issued a detailed written judgment clarifying the jurisdictional framework between the Supreme Court and the newly established Federal Constitutional Court following the 27th Constitutional Amendment.

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The decision, authored by a two-member bench headed by Chief Justice Yahya Afridi, explains the distribution of powers between the two courts and how constitutional and regular cases will now be handled separately.

According to the judgment, the Supreme Court and the Federal Constitutional Court are not subordinate to each other and function as parallel courts. The ruling further states that decisions of t...