India, Nov. 30 -- Pakistan on Sunday hit back at UN high commissioner for human rights Volker Turk after he criticised the country's 27th constitutional amendment, a move that shields field marshal Asim Munir and other top officials from prosecution for life.

Islamabad dismissed the UN's remarks as "ungrounded and misplaced apprehensions." The country's foreign office said that "like all parliamentary democracies, all legislation as well as any amendment to the constitution remain the exclusive domain of the elected representatives of the people of Pakistan," reported news agency PTI.

The remark came in response to a statement from Volker Turk, where in he warned that the new amendment, much like the 26th amendment last year, had been r...