By DAWN? I guess you have never read Jang/News and Takbeer, for example.
Question is not about any law being Islamic or un-Islamic. Nor is the question about any changes in basic human rights laws. I think basic point of the debate is that whether parliament can change the requirement of CJ’s consent to appoint supreme court judges.
And as I said earlier, there are many examples in the world where CJ’s consent in not required at all.
In Pakistan, the constitution calls for appointment of judges by President with “after consultation with CJ”. But CJ’s have interpreted it as saying that their recommendation is binding on President. Now 18th Amendment clarifies the procedure. There is nothing “unconstitutional” in this law. CJ needs to understand that he is not the king of Pakistan. It is parliament that is supreme. No more can one person (CJ) appoint judges of his own liking, and continue to threaten government and parliament.
Following explains the situation better. It shows why CJ is furious (“unconstitutionally”):
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-petition-filed-against-the-18th-amendment-ss-08
ISLAMABAD: Only a day after Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry reminded the parliament of what he had said about the limits to legislative authority, a petition was filed on Saturday against the 18th Amendment, which proposed judicial appointments through a judicial commission.
Both houses of the Parliament had the 18th Amendment, which has reduced the role of the Chief Justice in judicial appointments. The bill is about to be signed by the President Asif Ali Zardari.
However, on Thursday the Chief Justice used the national judicial conference to speak his mind against the constitutional amendment bill saying the legislature had to make laws within the parameters set out by the constitution.
The new article says “the recommendations for appointment of judges to superior judiciary shall be formulated through a judicial commission” and “the chairman shall be a Chief Justice,who has never previously taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO)”.