3. CONTANTS
1. GEN.PARVEZ MUSHARRAF
2. 9/11
3. Referendum 2002
4. General Elections 2002
5. Prime Minister [2002]
6. Prime Minister [2004]
7. 2005 an earthquake
8. Lal Masjid Operation
9. Major Achievements of Musharraf
10. 2007: Year of Change
11. Death of Benazir
4. CONTANTS
12. 2008 Elections
13. Asif Ali Zardari
14. Yousuf Raza Gilani
15. 2009 long march
16. Osama bin Laden
17. Raja Pervez Ashraf
18. 2013 Election
19. Mamnoon Hussain
20. Nawaz Sharif
21. Attack on Army Public School in Peshawar 2014
22. Azadi March (DHARNA)
23. current affairs of Pakistan
5. GEN.PARVEZ MUSHARRAF
(1999-2008)
Musharraf’s Takeover: (Martial Law)
12 October 1999 was the darkest day for the democracy of Pakistan.
Musharraf took the charge of the country by enforcing Martial Law and ruled
out the democracy. Imposing Martial Law is treason and violation of Article 6
of 1973 Constitution of Pakistan. This was all due to the hide and seek
between that times Government and Army.
Nawaz Sharif wanted to remove General Musharraf from the post of Chief of Army
Staff and he tried to do this on that day. When Musharraf came to know all about, he
was in Sri Lanka on official tour. Acting immediately, General Musharraf dashed for the
Karachi-bound Pakistan International Airlines PK805 flight from Colombo. His Plane
did not allow to land at the airport, his plane circling the Karachi Airport almost
200 minutes. . General Musharraf has since said that the plane had only seven
minutes of fuel remaining. At 22:30 the news came, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
had been dismissed and Martial Law had been imposed and the National Assembly
and Senate had been dissolved.
6. 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.
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.
7. 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?“
8. 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
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.
9. Zafarullah Khan Jamali Becomes
Prime Minister [2002]
Zafarullah Khan Jamali was elected the 13th
Prime Minister of Pakistan by the newly elected
Parliament on November 21, 200
10. 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.
11. October 2005 an earthquake in
Pakistan
In October 2005 an
earthquake in Pakistan killed
over 100,000 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.
12. Lal Masjid Operation
• The operation held in July 2007
• Operation was between Islamic fundamentalist militants and
government.
13. Major Achievements of Musharraf
1. Nine world class engineering universities were developed. The cost of building
these Universities was over Rs 96.5 billion.
2. In 1999-2000 there were 31 Public Universities. In 2005-2006 there were 49 Public
Universities. Air University (established 2002); Institute of Space Technology, IST
(established 2002); University of Science & Technology, Bannu (established 2005);
University of Hazara (founded 2002); University of Gujrat (established 2004); Virtual
University of Pakistan, Lahore (established 2002); etc.
3. Literacy rate in Pakistan had increased from 45% (in 2002) to 53% (in 2005).
Education was received 4% of GDP and English had been introduced as a compulsory
subject from grade 1.
4. In total, 99,319 educational institutions increased in Musharraf’s era.
5. There were more than 5,000 Pakistanis doing PhDs in foreign countries on
scholarship in Musharraf’s era. 300 Pakistanis receive PhD degrees every year, in 1999,
the number was just 20.
14. Major Achievements of Musharraf
6. Major Industrial estates were being developed under Musharraf’s vision:
M3 industrial, Sundar industrial estate, Chakri industrial, etc
.
7. In 1999 what we earned as GDP: we used to give away 64.1% as foreign
debt and liabilities. In 2006, what we earned as GDP: we gave only 28.3% as
foreign debt and liabilities. We were saving 35% of our GDP for economic
growth at that time.
8. According to an IMF report, Pakistan was 3rd in banking profitability in the
world. On the IMF chart, Pakistan’s banking profitability was on third position
after Colombia and Venezuela. On the same IMF chart, India was on the 36th
position and China was on the 40th position.
15. 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.
16. Death of Benazir
Economy effects on Pakistan:
Following a three-day shut-down,
• The KSE100 index, of the Karachi Stock Exchange fall 4.7%.
• The Pakistani rupee fell to its lowest level against the U.S. dollar since
October 2001
• The stock exchange has a history of recovering after political unrest .
• The pakistan Railways suffered losses of PKR 12.3 billion as a direct result
of riots following the assassination. 63 railway stations, 149 bogies, and
29 locomotives were damaged within two days of Bhutto's death.
• In the first four days after the assassination, Karachi suffered losses
of US$1 billion. By the fifth day, the cost of country wide violence
amounted to 8% of the GDP
17. 2008 Elections
• 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.
18. Asif Ali Zardari
11th president of pakistan
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
19. Yousuf Raza Gilani
16th Prime Minister
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.
20. 2009 LONG MARCH
In March, 2009, lawyers and opposition political parties under
the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, who was re-elected as Prime
Minister of Pakistan later in 2013, undertook a long march
from Karachi to Islamabad to demand the reinstatement of a
Supreme Court Chief Justice and other judges ousted from office
by former President Pervez Musharraf. The long march was
successful and the reinstatement of the judges was announced
by the then-Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on TV.
21. Osama bin Laden
On May 2nd 2011 Osama bin Laden was killed in a
million-dollar compound in the resort of
Abbottabad, 60 km north of the Pakistani capital
Islamabad.
On the same day Osama bin Laden was buried at sea
according to senior US administration officials who
said Islamic practice calls for burial within 24 hours.
They also said it would have been too hard to find a
country willing to accept the remains of the world's
most wanted terrorist, and wanted to avoid creating
a pilgrimage site.
22. Raja Pervez Ashraf
17th prime Minister
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
24. Mamnoon Hussain
12th president of Pakistan
he is a relatively lesser known
figure,described as loyal to Nawaz
Sharif,and was elected as President of
Pakistan as the official nominee of the
PML-N in the July 2013 presidential
election. Hussain secured 432 votes
and his only rival Wajihuddin Ahmed
received 77.
25. Nawaz Sharif
18 prime minister of
Pakistan
On 7 June 2013, Nawaz Sharif was
sworn in for an unprecedented
third term after the resounding
election victory of the PML-N. After
being sworn in, he faced numerous
challenges, including bringing an
end to US drone strikes and Taliban
attacks while also tackling
a crippled economy.
26. Attack on Army Public School in
Peshawar 2014
On 16 December 2014, seven Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
(Movement of the Pakistani Taliban, TTP) militants attacked the
Army Public School in Peshawar . At least 132 students &
teachers , including women and children, have been killed, and
another 84 people have been injured in the attack.
27. Azadi March (DHARNA)
The Azadi March Pakistan began on
14 August 2014 to 17 December
2014. Organised by the Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf party against Prime
Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, over the
claims of systematic rigging by PML-
N in the 2013 general election. Party
leader Imran Khan announced plans
for a protest march travelling
from Lahore to Islamabad in August
with a throng of protesters in a
PTI jalsa.
After huge drama PTI calls of DHARNA
after 126 days
28. current affairs of Pakistan
1. Law and Order situation in Pakistan
2. Supremacy of the Constitution
3. Stable democratic government
4. Energy problem
5. National Action Plan
6. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
(CPEC).
7. Container Conspiracy-2 on 2nd
November 2016
8. Zarb-e-azb
