Pakistan Reader# 636, 8 August 2023
On 8 August 2023, Dawn reported that the ruling coalition has come up with a candidate to fill as in caretaker prime minister. The identity has not been revealed in order to avoid any controversy. With the dissolution of the National Assembly, the Prime Minister and the opposition leader can work on the matter for three days. If this proves to be futile, then it is taken further to the Election Commission of Pakistan.
The first ever Pakistani Caretaker PM was the PPP founder Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi. He supervised the 1990 ballot exercise which saw Nawaz Sharif come into power from 1990 to 1993. Before the Presidential System came into existence in 1960, seven hand-picked prime ministers served between 1947 and October 1958, when the first Martial Law was proclaimed by Iskander Mirza. The Office of the PM was brought back in 1971 before it ceased to exist again.
Pakistan has had 31 Prime Ministers, including seven Interim heads of government, since 1990. The country now awaits the verdict of the eight Caretaker PM with bated breath.
References
(Syed Irfan Raza, “Govt ‘agrees’ on interim premier, name kept under wraps,” Dawn, 08 August 2023)
(Sabir Shah, “Pakistan has had seven caretaker PMs till date,” Dawn, 08 August 2023)
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