Political History of Pakistan

1977-2004
 Elections were held on March 7
in which Pakistan Peoples Party
managed to win 155 out of 200
seats in the National Assembly.
 Pakistan National Alliance was
only able to win 36 National
Assembly seats
 PNA alleged rigging in election
 At last Martial Law was imposed
by Zia-ul-Haq on 5th July,1977
 Bhutto was hanged on April
4,1979
 Referendum 1984
 The elections for the National
and Provincial Assemblies were
held in 1985 on February 25
and 28, respectively
 Muhammad Khan Junejo
Becomes Prime Minister [1985]
 Eighth Amendment
 lifting of Martial Law
 five-point program in December
1985
 Ojheri Camp near Islamabad on
April 10, 1988
 Dismisal of JUNEJO
 Benazir Bhutto Becomes Prime
Minister [1988]
 In the 1988 elections, Pakistan
Peoples Party won 94 seats in
the National Assembly
 Ghulam Ishaq Khan becomes
President [1988-93]
 The conflict between the
President and the Prime
Minister arose in two areas;
the appointment of the
Military Chiefs and the
Superior Court Judges
 on August 6, 1990, President
dissolved the National
Assembly
Nawaz Sharif Becomes Prime
Minister [1990] PDA VS IJI
 elections for the
National and Provincial
Assemblies were held
on October 24 and 27,
1990.
 IJI secured105 N.A
seats while PPP
gained 45.
 Party position in provinces
Sr.no Name Punjab Sindh NWFP Baluchi
of party stan

1 IJI 216 6 29 7

2 PDA 10 46 8 1
 Performance of Nawaz Govenment

 Water apportionment accord

 National finance commission’s award
 Privatization
 Differences with COAS and President
 Polices towards law and order problem in
urban Sindh
 Gulf war
 Appointments in ISI and Army
 Appointment of COAS
 Campaign for abrogation of 58(2)
 President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved the
National Assembly on April 18,1993, once
again exercising his power through the
Eighth Amendment.
 Restoration of National Assembly
by Supreme Court on May 26,1993.

 Resignations of president and PM

 Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime
Minister [1993]
 The elections for the
National and Provincial
Assemblies were held
on October 6 and 9,
1993,respectively.
 PML(N) secured 73
N.A seats while PPP
gained 83. Benazir Bhutto taking oath as Prime
Minister for the second time, in 1993
 Party position in provinces
Sr.no Name Punjab Sindh NWFP Baluchi
of party stan

1 PPP 94 56 22 3

2 PML(N) 106 8 15 6
 The Presidential Election
 The Presidential
election was held on
November 13. Farooq
Ahmad Khan Leghari,
the P. P. P. candidate,
won by 274 to 168
votes against the then
acting President
Wasim Sajjad.
Farooq Leghari taking oath as President
of Pakistan
Performance of BenazirGovernment

 Confrontation between PPP& PML(N)

 Differences with Judiciary
 Extra Judicial killing
 Corruption
 Dismissal on 5th November 1996
 Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime
Minister [1997]
 As scheduled,
elections were held on
February 3, 1997.
Pakistan Muslim
League won with 2/3
majority. Nawaz Sharif taking oath
as Prime Minister for
 It secured134 N.A the second time, in
seats while PPP 1997
gained 18.
 Party position in provinces
Sr.no Name Punjab Sindh NWFP Baluchi
of party stan

1 PML(N) 211 15 31 4

2 PPP 2 34 1 1
 Performance of Nawaz’s
Government
 National debt retirement
programme
 Thirteen Amendment(1st
april ,1997)
 Fourteen Amendment(1st
july,1997)
 Fifteen Amendment(28th
august,1998)
Nawaz addressing the National
Assembly after it
unanimously adopted the
Thirteenth Amendment on
April 1, 1997
 Pakistan’s Atomic
Explosions
 Lahore Declaration
(21st Feb,1999)
Chaghi Hills
 Kargil Crisis
 Military coup on 12th
october,1999

The Kashmiri freedom fighters

captured Kargil and Drass in 1999
Military coup
Military Comes to Power Again 1999
 On October 12, 1999,
the Pakistan Army
once again ousted
the Civilian
Government.
 Pervez Musharraf
Becomes President
[June 20, 2001]
 Referendum 2002

 The referendum took place on April 30, 2002, with no competition and
no option but to vote for General Musharraf. The referendum question
put forward to the people was: "For the survival of the local government
system, establishment of democracy, continuity of reforms, end to
sectarianism and extremism, and to fulfill the vision of Quaid-i-Azam,
would you like to elect President General Pervez Musharraf as
President of Pakistan for five years?"
 97% success in refrerendum
GENERAL ELECTIONS 2002
 The National and
Provincial elections
were held on
October10,2002. total
elected members for
the 342 National
President Pervez Musharraf
administering oath to Mir Assembly seats and
Zafarullah Khan Jamali,
Prime Minister of Pakistan
728 seats of the four
Provincial Assemblies.
 PML(Q) gained 77 N.A
seats
 Seventeenth Amendment was passed
which is basically the Legal Framework
Order 2002 that has been accepted as
part of the Constitution with minor
modifications and may be, therefore,
termed as an LFO-amended
Constitution.
 Jamali resigned on june24,2004
 Shaukat Aziz became the 23rd Prime
Minister of Pakistan on August 23, 2004
after he won two National Assembly
seats from Attock and Tharparkar on
August 18 by-elections and took oath as
Member of National Assembly on
August 20.