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The election was held in Pakistan on 18 February 2008, after being postponed from 8 January, the original date was intended to elect members of the National Assembly of Pakistan, the lower house of the Majlis-e-Shoora (the nation's parliament).
The general elections of 1970 on the basis of adult franchise revealed for the first time ever in Pakistan's history how regionalism and social conflict had come to dominate politics despite the efforts at controlled development.
Since its establishment in 1947, Pakistan has had a non-symmetric federal government and is a federal parliamentary democratic republic. At the national level, the people of Pakistan elect a bicameral legislature, the Parliament of Pakistan.
On December 07, 1970, first general elections were held in Pakistan. It took long 23 years that the government of Pakistan could manage to hold general elections, earlier (first phase—1947-1958) the legislative/constituent assembly was composed of members elected through an indirect election system.
In this paper, electoral politics in Pakistan is telescoped and the various anomalies and indiscretion committed during the provincial elections in the 1950’s have been brought into focus. KEY WORDS: Electoral Politics, Continent Assembly, Muslim Leagues, Political Parties, Elections.
elections and started the journey with the local government ordinance in 2000, like former dictators of the history of Pakistan he introducedthe local government system with a district government as basic unit in which the powers were transferred to the lower level and further to the union council. 1. Powers in the
The Election Commission was formed on 23 March 1956. The Chief Election Commissioner and four Members, each from one of the four provinces (Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) of the country, form the five-member panel of the Election Commission. The current Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan is Sikandar Sultan Raja. [2]