UNSTABE PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY PAKISTAN


The new charter not with standing, political volatility continued because no established majority party emerged in the National Assembly. Prime Minister Ali remained in office only pending September 1956, when he was not capable to retain his bulk in the National Assembly and was succeeded by Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy, creator of the Awami League of East Pakistan. He created a union cabinet that incorporated the Awami League and the Republican Party of the West Wing, a new party that was shaped by protester members of the Muslim League. still, President Mirza forced Suhrawardy to resign after he exposed that the prime minister was scheduling to support Firoz Khan Noon, leader of the Republican Party, for the administration in the country’s first general elections, listed for January 1959. The following coalition government, headed by Ismail Ibrahim Chundrigar of the Muslim League, lasted only two months before it was replaced by a Republican social gathering cabinet under Noon..

President Mirza, realize he had no chance of being reelected president and frankly displeased with parliamentary democratic system, proclaimed martial law on October 7, 1958. He dismissed Noon’s government, dissolved the National Assembly, and canceled the listed general elections. Mirza was supported by General Muhammad Ayub Khan, commander in chief of the army, who was named chief martial-law administrator. 20 days later Ayub compulsory the president to resign and understood the presidency himself.

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