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It secured a two-thirds majority in the Pakistan Parliament, the only political party to have gained a two-thirds majority since the country's independence in 1947. [22] During this time, the PML-N was the largest conservative party, with its members occupying 137 seats out of 207, roughly 66.2%. [ 22 ]
The first "Pakistan" Muslim League was founded by President Ayub Khan in 1962 as a successor to the original Muslim League.Just a short period after its foundation, the party broke into two factions: Convention Muslim League that supported the President and the new Constitution, and the Council Muslim League, that opposed the new Constitution, denouncing it as undemocratic that made the ...
The federal government approved the deployment of Pakistan Army and Civil Armed Forces personnel ... PML(N) 61,086 61.25 ... Majority 26,704 14.64 ...
The 74-year-old chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz(PML-N) party and three-time former prime minister returned from a four-year self-imposed exile in the United Kingdom late last year ...
More than 70 parties contested the elections. The main parties were the Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP), Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM), Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam), which was also called the "King's Party" for its unconditional support of the government, and the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), an alliance of six religious political parties.
It resulted in a Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) majority, and a massive loss of seats for the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). The PML-N became the single largest party, though without an overall majority. The PML-N won 163 seats in the National Assembly. [2] This resulted in a hung parliament.
The 2017 census recorded a population of 207,684,626 living in Pakistan's four provinces and the Islamabad Capital Territory. [3] The census also reported that Azad Kashmir's population stood at 4,045,367 [4] and Gilgit-Baltistan's population was 1,492,924. [5] This meant that the total population of Pakistan in 2017 was 213,222,917.
The 2023 Census of Pakistan was the detailed enumeration of the Pakistani population and the seventh national census in the country. [1] [2] [3] It was conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. [4] It was also the first ever digital census to be held in Pakistan, including the first in South Asian history. [5]