— Interpretation can sometimes distort the intended meaning of the text “The Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP), Justice Qazi Faez Isa, often goes out of his way to not provide interpretations of constitutional texts. Interpretation can sometimes distort the intended meaning of the text,” writes Nadim Farooq Paracha in Dawn. In May 2022, former CJP Umar Atta Bandial interpreted Article 63-A of the constitution to mean that the votes of the members of the parliament/assemblies cannot be counted if they did not vote along party lines. At the time of Bandial’s ‘interpretation’ in 2022, the article prescribed that defecting members

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