Constitution

Part VII · The Judicature · The Supreme Court of Pakistan

Issue and execution of processes of Federal Constitutional Court and Supreme Court

Article 187

Amended by 5th Amendment (1976) · 26th Amendment (2024) · 27th Amendment (2025)

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English · authoritative

(1)

1[Subject to clause (2) of Article 175, 2[the Federal Constitutional Court and] the] Supreme Court shall have power to issue such directions, orders or decrees as may be necessary for doing complete justice in any case or matter pending before it, including an order for the purpose of securing the attendance of any person or the discovery or production of any document 3[:]

4[Provided that no order under this clause shall be passed otherwise than in pursuance of any jurisdiction vested in and exercised by 2[the Federal Constitutional Court and] the Supreme Court.]

(2)

Any such direction, order or decree shall be enforceable throughout Pakistan and shall, where it is to be executed in a Province, or a territory or an area not forming part of a Province but within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Province, be executed as if it had been issued by the High Court of that Province.

(3)

If a question arises as to which High Court shall give effect to a direction, order or decree of the Supreme Court, the decision of the Supreme Court on the question shall be final.

Urdu · official translation (2018)

This article was changed after 31 May 2018. The official Urdu translation below does not include that change, so rely on the English text.

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Amendment notes (4)›
  1. 1Substituted by the Constitution (Fifth Amdt.) Act, 1976 (62 of 1976), section 7, for “The” (w.e.f the 13th September, 1976).
  2. 2Inserted by the Constitution (Twenty-Seventh Amdt.) Act, 2025 (32 of 2025), section 33.
  3. 3Substituted by the Constitution (Twenty-Sixth Amdt.) Act 2024 (26 of 2024), section 13 for “full stop”.
  4. 4Proviso added ibid.,

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Article 187 of the Constitution
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Article 187 of the Constitution (Issue and execution of processes of Federal Constitutional Court and Supreme Court)
In full
Article 187, Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973

English text as amended up to 21 November 2025 (27th Amendment), published by Ministry of Law and Justice / National Assembly of Pakistan. The English text is authoritative. Official PDF, page 127