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The political history of Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان کی سیاسی تاريخ) is the narrative and analysis of political events, ideas, movements, and leaders of Pakistan. Pakistan gained independence from the United Kingdom on 14 August 1947, when the Presidencies and provinces of British India were divided by the United Kingdom, in a ...
It has been suggested that Political history of Pakistan be merged into this article. ( Discuss ) Proposed since June 2024. Statesmen of the early decades of Pakistan, with Pakistan’s founding father and future Governor-General , Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the centre of the bottom row.
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 .
This is a timeline of Pakistani history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the region of modern-day Pakistan. To read about the background of these events, see History of Pakistan and History of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan .
Since 1947, Pakistan has had 20 prime ministers, aside from the appointed caretaker prime ministers who were only mandated to oversee the system until the election process was finished. In Pakistan's parliamentary system , the prime minister is sworn in by the president and usually is the chairman or the president of the party or coalition that ...
Asif Ali Zardari is currently the president of Pakistan (since 2024). The president was a significant authority until the 18th amendment, passed in 2010, stripped the presidency of most of its powers. Since then, Pakistan has shifted from a Semi-presidential system to a purely parliamentary government. Since the amendment, the president's ...
Pakistan's political system is based on an elected form of governance. [4] The democratic elections held in 2008 were the first to conclude a 5-year term in the nation's political history. However, since the country's inception, the military has had disproportionate power over state affairs. [5]
Pakistan Muslim League (N) – 8 Farooq Leghari (1940–2010) 14 November 1993 2 December 1997 4 years, 18 days Pakistan People's Party: 1993 — Wasim Sajjad (born 1941) acting: 2 December 1997 1 January 1998 30 days Pakistan Muslim League (N) 9 Muhammad Rafiq Tarar (1929–2022) 1 January 1998 20 June 2001 3 years, 170 days Pakistan Muslim ...