Political And Constitutional Phases Of Pakistan 1999 Onward

1. Political And Constitutional
Phases Of Pakistan 1999
Onward …

2. • Military Comes to
Power Again [Oct 12,
1999]
• General Pervez
Musharraf

3. 2002-2007
• General
Pervez.Musharraf
announced,
• "The change will
augur well for the
future of Pakistan";
and said, "I think I
have a role to play; I
have a job to do here;
I cannot and will not
let this nation down".

4. • He gave three reasons for taking over as the
President of Pakistan:
• 1.constitutional,
• 2.political,
• 3.economic.

5. Agra.Summit
• A historic summit meeting
was held between Pakistan's
President Pervez Musharraf
and the Indian Prime Minister
AtalBehari Vajpayee in Agra,
from July 14 to 16, 2001. The
summit started amid high
hopes of resolving various
disputes between the two
countries including the five
decades’ old Kashmir issue.

6. Local_Government_System_[2001]

7. September Eleven 9/11 and Its Aftermath
[2001]
On September 11, 2001, with the
collapse of the World Trade Center
started what the U.S. called "the
war against terrorism". U.S.
President George Bush termed it an
act of terrorism and ssssthreatened
strong action against the people
who had carried out the attack. It
was the Taliban and the Saudi
millionaire-turned-militant Osama
bin Laden who were eventually held
responsible for it.

8. 9.11…..
• General Musharraf made efforts to persuade
the country's political and religious leadership
to support an alliance with the United States
but was partially successful in his efforts.
Liberal-minded politicians agreed to fully back
the government while leaders of some hard-
line Islamic parties were not happy.

9. 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?"

10. General Elections 2002
• After three years of military rule, Pakistan again headed
towards democracy on October 10, 2002. More than 70
parties, big and small, contested the eighth national
parliamentary election
• These elections were different from the previous ones
due to the number of legislation passed by the
Government. Convicted people were barred from
taking part in elections under the Representation of
the People's Act. Several other politicians were
unable to contest the elections, as they did not have a
Bachelor's Degree, which was a mandatory
qualification in the elections

11. • And for the first time since 1977,
the minority communities that
included Christians, Hindus and
Parsees contested and voted for
all general seats in the National
and Provincial Assemblies.
• The age limit of voting in these
elections was also lowered from
21 to 18 years.

12. • With no party emerging with a simple majority
Pakistan faced menace of a hung parliament. A
coalition government was, however, set up with
Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, the candidate of
PML (Q) as the Prime Minister of Pakistan with
the help of MQM, a number of independent
candidates and 10 members of the Pakistan
People Party Parliamentarians who defected from
the party to form their own Forward Block.

13. Zafarullah Khan Jamali Becomes Prime Minister
[2002]
• Zafarullah Khan Jamali was elected the 21st
Prime Minister of Pakistan by the newly
elected Parliament on November 21, 2002.

14. • President General Pervez Musharraf
administered the oath to the new Prime
Minster at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on November 23
• He now heads Pakistan's first civilian
government after three years of military rule of
General Pervez Musharraf.

15. Seventeenth Amendment[2003]
• Seventeenth Amendment 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. After a
surprise deal between PML(Q) and MMA (MutahidaMajlis-
e-Amal), the 17th Amendment has now become part of the
1973 Constitution after the formal approval of President
General Pervez Musharraf.
• In the Article 179, retirement age of the Supreme Court
judges has now been fixed at 65 year. This was a huge
concern for the lawyers of the country who have at least
welcomed this move.

16. ShaukatAziz Becomes Prime Minister [2004]
• In July 2004 Pakistan's Prime
Minister choose Shaukat Aziz
survived a suicide attack aimed at
him by al Qaida militants. Aziz
would go on to win two by-elections
in August paving the way to his
assumption of the role of Prime
Minister. Aziz had been Musharraf's
Minister of Finance, and his
assumption of the role of Prime
Minister was aimed at attempting to
focus energy on Pakistan's troubled
economy.

17. In October 2005 an earthquake in Pakistan
• In October 2005 an earthquake in
Pakistan killed over 80,000
people in the country's north. It
provided a brief respite for the
under attack organization of
Pervez Musharraf as various
political entities hooped together
to tackle the civilized
implications of the disaster.

18. • The disaster affected relationships between various
radical groups and the Pakistani government and
contributed to one of what had been a number of
Indo-Pakistani thaws over Kashimir, despite
Musharraf's claim earlier in the year that government
policy on the doubtful land remained the same. The
positive outcomes of the disaster were short lived as
spurts of violence between the government and
militants continued by the end of the year and into
2006.

19. 2007: Year of Change
• The year 2007 brought a huge political
crisis to Pakistan. Rooted in President
Musharraf's initial idea of stepping down
in 2007 and his following plans to stand in
the long proposed 2007 elections, political
crisis rapidly built up.
• Perhaps the most serious stirring incident
came on 9 March 2007, when Musharraf
suspended Iftikhar Chaudhry, Chief Justice
of the Pakistani Supreme Court, who had
largely been expected to rule that it would
be illegal for Musharraf to stand in the
upcoming elections.

20. 2008 Elections
• The PPP's candidate for Prime Minister,
Amin Faheem, was Zardari's main
competitor.
• On 18 August 2008, under domestic
political pressure from Pakistan's union
government, Musharraf resigned from the
presidency -- marking the end of an era.
• On 25 August 2008 Pakistan's previous
prime minister Nawaz Sharif announced
his Muslim League-N party is quitting the
ruling partnership, putting the union at
risk ahead of elections for the country's
Presidency.

21. • On 06 September 2008Asif Ali Zardari won an
estimated 482 of the 702 votes from lawmakers to
become what some believe will be Pakistan's most
powerful civilian leader.
• . Asif Ali Zardari won the majority of votes in three
of the country's four provincial assemblies as well as
in both houses of parliament. Zardari's win capped a
remarkable political revival for a man who spent 11
years in prison on corruption and murder charges -
without ever being convicted.

22. Asif Ali Zardari
• . On 09 September 2008Asif Ali
Zardari, the widower of slain former
Pakistani prime minister Benazir
Bhutto, was confirmed in as
Pakistan's new president. After his
launch Tuesday, President Zardari
told reporters he is accepting the
position in the name of his late wife
and, in his words, "in the name of all
martyrs of democracy." President
Zardari replaced Pervez Musharraf
who stepped down under pressure a
month earlier

23. • Pakistan’s under pressure prime
minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani,
made a rare appearance before the
country's supreme court 19
January 2012, amid increased
tensions between his government
and the country’s violently
independent judiciary.

24. • against President Asif Ali Zardari. Gilani told the
court his government was unable to initiate legal
proceedings against the president because he has
immunity while in office.
• By mid-2012 Zardari’s government was reeling from
a combination of rolling power blackouts, rising
unemployment, militant attacks and a tense
relationship with the United States.

25. • There was a situation of crisis and
feeling of uncertainty, and in this
kind of situation government
officials do not really take very bold
steps because they don’t know who
would be there ruling the country
next week.

26. • On 22 June 2012 Pakistani
lawmakers elected a new
prime minister to replace
ousted Yousuf Raza Gilani,
in a bid to end the country's
political crisis

27. • Parliament voted
crushingly in favor
of former water and
power minister Raja
Pervez Ashraf, who
had been hit with
corruption claims
and was partly
blamed for the
country's electricity
crisis

28. • It would be a historic landmark in the country that a
democratic government would complete its
constitutional residence for the first time. On the
other hand, as the 2013 general elections got closer,
the political wheeling and dealing in the country
gathered pace and new political alliances were copied
before the elections. The process gained momentum
as talks for new political grouping start.