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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).
On the eve of the elections, a cyclone struck East Pakistan killing approximately 500,000 people, though this event did not deter people from participating in the first ever general election. [111] Mobilizing support for their Six Points manifesto the Awami League secured electoral support in East Pakistan. [ 111 ]
The History of Pakistan prior to its independence in 1947 spans several millennia and covers a vast geographical area known as the Greater Indus region. [1] Anatomically modern humans arrived in what is now Pakistan between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. [ 2 ]
The movement was successful and Pakistan gained its independence as the Dominion of Pakistan on 14 August 1947. Pakistan's independence was based on Muslim nationalism, though Pakistan's founder, Jinnah, often regarded as 'The Great Leader' for his efforts emphasized that Pakistan would be a relatively secular state, in which minority and women ...
14 June – October: 2022 Pakistan floods; 21 June: June 2022 Afghanistan earthquake; 18 July: Sadiqabad boat sinking; 1 August: 2022 Pakistan Army helicopter incident; The 2022 Census of Pakistan; 2 August: The Election Commission of Pakistan announced verdict of PTI foreign funding case. 16 August: M-5 motorway bus-oil tanker collision
[3] [4] The then governor-general of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, took advice from the Founding Fathers of the nation and appointed Liaquat Ali Khan to establish and lead his administration on 15 August 1947. [5] Before the presidential system in 1960, seven prime ministers had served between 1947 until martial law in 1958. In 1971, the ...
Pakistan's Constituent Assembly first convened on August 10, 1947, on the eve of independence and the end of British rule. [3] Muhammad Ali Jinnah was elected as the president of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on the same day and remained its president until his death on September 11, 1948. [3]
The general elections of 1970 are considered one of the fairest and cleanest elections in the history of Pakistan, with about twenty-four political parties taking part. The Awami League, a Bengali nationalist party dominated East Pakistan, while in the West the Pakistan Peoples Party , a leftist and nominally democratic socialist party, was a ...