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Second shortest-tenured Prime Minister. He was elected by the Parliament and served a 54-day period before Shaukat Aziz replaced him. [32] 15 Shaukat Aziz. شوکت عزیز (born 1949) 28 August 2004 15 November 2007 3 years, 79 days — Pakistan Muslim League (Q) Aziz took the office of Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2004.
The Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N) won the 1990 election and the party's leader, Nawaz Sharif, became Prime Minister. In early 1993 he attempted to strip the President of the power to dismiss the Prime Minister, National Assembly and regional assemblies. [3]
The election was won by the Awami League, having 167 seats out of 313, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was to be the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. But the military government, at the request of opposition leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , refused to transfer power to the elected Parliament, causing the beginning of the ...
Prime Minister before election. None (post vacant since 1958) Elected Prime Minister. Nurul Amin PML. ... Bhutto became the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1973, after ...
The current head of state of Pakistan is Asif Ali Zardari, elected in 2024 after being nominated by the Pakistan People's Party. From 1947 to 1956 the head of state was the Pakistani monarch, who was the same person as the monarch of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The Monarch was represented in Pakistan by the Governor ...
6 July: Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Safdar Awan were given prison sentences of 10, 7 and 1 years respectfully on controversial corruption charges. [285] 25 July: 2018 Pakistani general election are held and Imran khan became Prime Minister of Pakistan with majority .
The PPP won the largest number of seats in the 1993 election and Benazir Bhutto became prime minister at the head of a coalition government. [2] However, on 5 November 1996, President Leghari, a former ally of Bhutto, [3] dismissed the government 2 years early for alleged corruption and abuse of power. [4]
In 1954 the controversial One Unit Program was imposed by the last Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Prime minister Ali Bogra dividing Pakistan on the German geopolitical model. [81] The same year the first legislative elections were held in Pakistan, which saw the communists gaining control of East Pakistan. [82]