PCO (Provisional Constitution order 1981)

It is an emergency and extra constitutional order that suspends either wholly or partially the
constitution of Pakistan, the Supreme law of land the PCO fulfill and acts as the temporary order while
the constitution is held in abeyance soon after the martial law went into immediate effect in 1977, the
constitution of Pakistan was suspended the first PCO was declared on 24 March 1981 by the president
chief of army staff Zia-ul-haq. It was the first PCO having declared by the president General Zia in the
history of Pakistan. Under the new order the senior justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan were asked
to take an oath of office under the provision set by the PCO on March 1981, president Zia terminated 19
senior justices of the Supreme Court when they refused to take an oath.