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This election led to strong showings for the PPP and the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N), who signed the Bhurban Accord in response to the election results. 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 ...
The same year the first legislative elections were held in Pakistan, which saw the communists gaining control of East Pakistan. [82] The 1954 election results clarified the differences in ideology between West and East Pakistan, with East Pakistan under the influence of the Communist Party allying with the Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal (Workers ...
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 ...
They ruled parts of present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, [63] and northwestern India, during or slightly before the 1st century AD. For most of their history, the leading Gondopharid kings held Taxila (in the present Punjab province of Pakistan) as their residence, but during their last few years of existence the capital shifted between Kabul and ...
30 July: Mamnoon Hussain is elected as the 12th President of Pakistan in 2013 Presidential elections. 6 August: 2013 Pakistan–Afghanistan floods, 140 killed; 8 August: August 2013 Quetta bombing, 31 killed. 7 September: Operation Lyari is resumed. 22 September: Peshawar church bombing, 127 killed. 24 September: 2013 Balochistan earthquakes ...
The national cabinet, led by the Prime Minister of Pakistan has executive power and the president is the head of state elected by the electoral college. [3] 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.
Independent candidates affiliated with jailed Pakistani political leader Imran Khan’s Tehreek E Insaaf (PTI) party won the most National Assembly seats in Pakistan’s general election ...
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 ...