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By: Rehan Zahoor
Political unrest in Pakistan has resulted in the reinstatement of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of that country's Supreme Court. Chaudhry was awarded Harvard Law School's highest honor, the Medal of Freedom, last year for his role in the Pakistani lawyers' movement, which has been active in demanding the reinstatement of an independent judiciary. Overall, sixty judges were removed from the Pakistani bench by former President Pervez Musharraf in 2007. Musharraf was forced to step down from his post late last year, and was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardari, who reinstated some but not all the judges - Chaudhry was one of the exceptions. The lawyers' movement remained livid about the government's failure to reinstate all judges.
Recently the Politics of Pakistan has taken place in the framework of a federal republic, where the system of government has at times been parliamentary, presidential, or semi-presidential. In the current semi-presidential system, the President of Pakistan is the head of state, the Prime Minister is head of government, and there is a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is largely vested in the Parliament.
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Political unrest in Pakistan has resulted in the reinstatement of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of that country's Supreme Court. Chaudhry was awarded Harvard Law School's highest honor, the Medal of Freedom, last year for his role in the Pakistani lawyers' movement, which has been active in demanding the reinstatement of an independent judiciary. Overall, sixty judges were removed from the Pakistani bench by former President Pervez Musharraf in 2007. Musharraf was forced to step down from his post late last year, and was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardari, who reinstated some but not all the judges - Chaudhry was one of the exceptions. The lawyers' movement remained livid about the government's failure to reinstate all judges.
BY: Tashfeen Warraich
Pakistan has been under the influence of its military almost since it was founded. The Intelligence agencies have a huge role in the politics since the beginning in making and breaking the political parties. The president, in keeping with the constitutional provision that the state religion is Islam, must be a Muslim. Elected for a five-year term by an Electoral College consisting of members of the Senate and National Assembly and members of the provincial assemblies, the president is eligible for reelection. But no individual may hold the office for more than two consecutive terms. The president may resign or be impeached and may be removed from office for incapacity or gross misconduct by a two-thirds vote of the members of the parliament. The president generally acts on the advice of the prime minister but has important residual powers. One of the most important--a legacy of Zia--is contained in the Eighth Amendment which gives the president the power to dissolve the National Assembly "in his discretion where, in his opinion . . . a situation has arisen in which the Government of the Federation cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and an appeal to the electorate is necessary." The Thirteenth Amendment which was passed in 1997, revoked this power. In December 2003, the President's power was partially restored by the Seventeenth Amendment. In April 2004, the Presidency's influence was augmented by an Act of Parliament that established the National Security Council, a body chaired by the President.The prime minister is appointed by the members of the National Assembly through a vote. The prime minister is assisted by the Federal Cabinet, a council of ministers whose members are appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister. The Federal Cabinet comprises the ministers, ministers of state, and advisers. As of early 1994, there were thirty-three ministerial portfolios: commerce; communications; culture; defence; defence production; education; environment; finance and economic affairs; food and agriculture; foreign affairs; health; housing; information and broadcasting; interior; Kashmiri affairs and Northern Areas; law and justice; local government; minority affairs; narcotics control; parliamentary affairs; petroleum and natural resources production; planning and development; railways; religious affairs; science and technology; social welfare; special education; sports; state and frontier regions; tourism; water and power; women's development; and youth affairs.
Pakistan has been under the influence of its military almost since it was founded. The Intelligence agencies have a huge role in the politics since the beginning in making and breaking the political parties. The president, in keeping with the constitutional provision that the state religion is Islam, must be a Muslim. Elected for a five-year term by an Electoral College consisting of members of the Senate and National Assembly and members of the provincial assemblies, the president is eligible for reelection. But no individual may hold the office for more than two consecutive terms. The president may resign or be impeached and may be removed from office for incapacity or gross misconduct by a two-thirds vote of the members of the parliament. The president generally acts on the advice of the prime minister but has important residual powers. One of the most important--a legacy of Zia--is contained in the Eighth Amendment which gives the president the power to dissolve the National Assembly "in his discretion where, in his opinion . . . a situation has arisen in which the Government of the Federation cannot be carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and an appeal to the electorate is necessary." The Thirteenth Amendment which was passed in 1997, revoked this power. In December 2003, the President's power was partially restored by the Seventeenth Amendment. In April 2004, the Presidency's influence was augmented by an Act of Parliament that established the National Security Council, a body chaired by the President.The prime minister is appointed by the members of the National Assembly through a vote. The prime minister is assisted by the Federal Cabinet, a council of ministers whose members are appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister. The Federal Cabinet comprises the ministers, ministers of state, and advisers. As of early 1994, there were thirty-three ministerial portfolios: commerce; communications; culture; defence; defence production; education; environment; finance and economic affairs; food and agriculture; foreign affairs; health; housing; information and broadcasting; interior; Kashmiri affairs and Northern Areas; law and justice; local government; minority affairs; narcotics control; parliamentary affairs; petroleum and natural resources production; planning and development; railways; religious affairs; science and technology; social welfare; special education; sports; state and frontier regions; tourism; water and power; women's development; and youth affairs.
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govt has been involved in its own personal probs n establishing its govt till now, no strategic issues are being taken care of...
ReplyDeletelets hope they do sumfin for de people of pakistan too.
I totally agree wid Hamza... thE govt's progress isn't satisfactory
ReplyDeletepML q was better
ReplyDeleteexcellent progress by PPP
ReplyDeleteJiyay bhutto ;)
and pml-q was the worst..chawal party..!
saad no personal attack!! PML Q ke bohat suppoerter hain yahan. u knw it!!
ReplyDeleteBut i am not a PML Q supporter!! nice goin Saad!!
nothing will improve unless we have quality people controlling our country....not people like zardari, gillani(dummy) etc etc.....there should be some check on who gets to control prestigious ministries...but here it gets assigned on the basis of who does the most TC of zardari...i feel sorry for our country....
ReplyDeleteLONG LIVE PAKISTAN!!!
Frankly speaking, measuring the progess rate varies from person to person. Moreover everyone has different standards of measuring it.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Pakistan is a developing country but it is facing all sorts of crises and pressures.
We living in Pakistan are still lacking the very basic necessities of life. This is poverty.
Coming back to the question, Zardari
is making things more worse in nutshell.
He has a major corruption hold. He has no agenda other than minting money. He is a thug.
We need a leader who is trust worthy, qualified, has the ability to look into matters and solve them with sincerity. Law and order being enforced. Our police is a sector where massive investment, training etc. can change the security issues alot.
"Unless social control is not there, society cant change."
Electricity situation:
ReplyDeleteFew years back, the chines came in Pakistan, did there research, and were ready to invest in the thar coal mine. They also promised to
provide electricty for 20 years non- stop through out Pakistan at a economical charge.
Thanks to shaukat aziz who was more worried at the monopoly of WAPDA, he had disagreed with the charges and was ready to apply
heavy taxation to this project.
The Chinese got disappointed and left Pakistan. The interior minister of Pakistan was also involved in this conspiracy and said "taxes will have to be levied at all costs."
If this was not the case, we would be having no loadshedding for 20 yrs. But it was not in the nature of Pakistan. While Thar coal mine is the 3rd or 2nd largest coal min in the world. It has gas reserves which are undiscovered yet fully.
The small power plants installed throughout Pakistan are inefficient and economies of scale are not being achieved.
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ReplyDeleteThis blog needs discussion on imran Khan as well!
ReplyDeleteHe is gona be the future of pakistan.
Inshallah
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