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Office vacant May 30, 1988 – December 1, 1988 [e] 11: Benazir Bhutto. بے نظیر بھٹو (1953–2007) 2 December 1988 6 August 1990 1 year, 247 days 1988: Pakistan Peoples Party: Bhutto became the first woman in Pakistan to head a major political party, in 1982. Six years later, she became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state.
Pakistan has a number of shrines that have become places of pilgrimage. They include mausolea and shrines of political leaders (of both pre-independence and post-independence Pakistan), shrines of religious leaders and pirs (saints) and shrines of leaders of various Islamic empires and dynasties.
The National Anthem of Pakistan, [a] also known by its incipit "The Sacred Land", [b] is the national anthem of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and formerly the Dominion of Pakistan. [1] First composed by Ahmad G. Chagla in 1949, lyrics in Persified Urdu were later written by Hafeez Jalandhari in 1952.
"On the advice of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, His Majesty the King is pleased to appoint Khwaja Nazimuddin as acting governor-general of Pakistan in the vacancy occasioned by the sad demise of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah." In 1951, Sir Khwaja Nazimuddin resigned from the post of governor-general to become the new prime minister.
Pakistan Muslim League (N) – 11 Asif Ali Zardari (born 1955) 9 September 2008 9 September 2013 5 years Pakistan People's Party: 2008: 12 Mamnoon Hussain (1940–2021) 9 September 2013 9 September 2018 5 years Pakistan Muslim League (N) 2013: 13 Arif Alvi (born 1949) 9 September 2018 10 March 2024 5 years, 183 days Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ...
E sarzamīn-e-Pāk! Utra hai imtihāñ maiñ vatan āj kāmyāb Ab hurriyat ki zulf nahīñ mahv-e-paic-o-tāb Daulat hai apne mulk ki be had-o-be hisāb Hoñ ge ham apne mulk ki daulat se faizyāb Maghrib se hum ko khauf nah mashriq se hum ko bāk E sarzamīn-e-Pāk! Apne vatan ka āj badalne laga nizām Apne vatan maiñ āj nahīñ hai koi ...
Pakistan, [e] officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, [f] is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, [g] having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre.
The 1973 constitution was the first in Pakistan to be framed by elected representatives. Unlike the 1962 constitution it gave Pakistan a parliamentary democracy with executive power concentrated in the office of the prime minister, and the formal head of state—the president—limited to acting on the advice of the prime minister. [14]