Amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan

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This is a list of all the amendments to the Constitution of Pakistan.

Proposal Full
# Amendments Enactment date
date text

Redefined the boundaries of Pakistan and removed Full

1st 4 May 1974 Text
references to East Pakistan.

Defined a Muslim and declared the status Full

2nd 7 September 1974 Text
of Ahmadis as minority and 'non-Muslim'.

Full
3rd Extended the period of preventive detention. 18 February 1975 Text

Decreed additional seats for minorities, it also deprived

Full
4th courts of the power to grant bail to any person detained 21 November 1975 Text
under any preventive detention.

Full
5th Widened the scope of restriction on the High Courts. 5 September 1976 Text

Provided that Chief Justice of Supreme Court will be Full

6th 22 December 1976 Text
retired at the age of 65 and High Court judges at age 62.

Enables the Prime Minister to obtain a vote of Full

7th 16 May 1977 Text
confidence of the people of Pakistan.

Changed Pakistan's government from a Parliamentary

Full
8th system to a Semi-presidential system by giving the 11 November 1985 Text
President a number of additional powers.

Bill to impose Shariah law as the supreme law of land.

Full
9th The bill was passed by Senate but could never be passed 1985 Not passed Text
by National Assembly owing to the latter's dissolution.
 Fixed the interval period between sessions of the Full
10th 29 March 1987 Text
National Assembly to not exceed 130 days.

Revision of the reserved seats for women in the National

Full
11th and the provincial assemblies. The bill was withdrawn in 1989 Not passed Text
1992.

Full
12th Created Speedy Trial Court for 3 years. 1991 Text

Stripped the President of Pakistan of his reserve power to

dissolve the National Assembly of Pakistan, and thereby Full
13th 1997 Text
triggering new elections and dismissing the Prime
Minister.

Allowed members of parliament to be dismissed if they Full

14th 3 July 1997 Text
defect.

Bill to impose Shariah law as supreme law of land. Was Full

15th 1998 Not passed Text
never passed.

Increased the term appointed for quota system as per Full

16th 1999 Text
1973 Constitution from 20 to 40 years.

Made changes dealing with the office of the President

Full
17th and the reversal of the effects of the Thirteenth 2003 Text
Amendment.

Removed the power of President of Pakistan to dissolve Full

18th 8 April 2010 Text
the Parliament unilaterally.

Provided for the appointment of the Judges of

the Supreme Court of Pakistan and made amendments in
Full
19th the number of members of the parliamentary committee 22 December 2010 Text
for the appointment of Chief Electoral
Officers at Election Commission of Pakistan.
 Full
20th For Free and Fair Elections.[1] 14 February 2012 Text

Full
21st For Speedy Trial Military Courts to deal with terrorism. 7 January 2015 Text

Full
22nd ECP powers deputed to Chief Election Commissioner [2] 8 June 2016 Text

The 23rd Amendment was passed to re-establish the

military courts for further two years till 6 January
2019.[3] In 2015, National Assembly passed the 21st
Amendment and created the military courts for the
Full
23rd period of 2 years. The period of two years was expired 7 January 2017 Text
on 6 January 2017 hence this 23rd Amendment was
passed to re-establish the military courts for further two
years till 6 January 2019. At the end of this period all the
amendments will be expired/removed automatically.

Reallocation of National Assembly seats among

federating units and allowing election authorities to Full
24th 22 December 2017 Text
update boundaries of constituencies based on provisional
results of 2017 Census of Pakistan.

Merges Federally Administered Tribal

25th 2018 31 May 2018
Areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa