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A state of emergency was declared by President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf on 3 November 2007 which lasted until 15 December 2007, during which the Constitution of Pakistan was suspended. [1] [2] When the state of emergency was declared, Musharraf controversially held both positions of President and Chief of Army Staff.
The president of Pakistan is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The complete list of presidents of Pakistan includes the persons sworn into the office of president following the proclamation of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1956. There have been a total of 13 presidents. The first president was Iskander Ali Mirza who ...
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 ...
The 2007 impeachment proceedings, which led to the imposition of emergency rule, were based upon the provisions prohibiting the President of Pakistan from holding "an office of profit" from the Pakistan Government. [citation needed] Pakistan's ruling coalition, on August 16, gave Musharraf a Tuesday, August 19 deadline to resign.
This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government.In some cases, mainly in presidential systems, one leader is head of state and head of government.In other cases, mainly in semi-presidential and parliamentary systems, the head of state and the head of government are different people.
The president of Pakistan (Urdu: صدرِ پاکستان, romanized: s̤adr-i Pākistān) is the head of state of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The president is the nominal head of the executive and the supreme commander of the Pakistan Armed Forces. [4] [5] The presidency is a ceremonial position in Pakistan. The president is bound to act ...
On 3 November 2007, Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. [202] [203] He suspended the Constitution, imposed a state of emergency, and fired the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court again. [204] In Islamabad, troops entered the Supreme Court building, arrested the judges and kept them detained in their homes. [203]
The Aiwan-e-Sadr (Urdu: ایوانِ صدر), or Presidential Palace, is the official residence and workplace of the president of Pakistan. It is located in northeastern Islamabad on Constitution Avenue, between the Parliament Building and the Cabinet block of the Pakistan Secretariat. Residences for the presidential staff, known as the ...