Elec-tion-ary: Dismissal of PPP govt and caretakers
President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed Benazir Bhutto’s PPP government and dissolved the National Assembly.
The president invoked his powers granted under Article 58(2)b of the amended constitution. DESIGN: EMA ANIS
ISLAMABAD:
President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government and dissolved the National Assembly on August 6, 1990.
The president invoked his powers granted under Article 58(2)b of the amended constitution. Fresh elections were announced to be held on October 24, 1990 for the lower house and on October 27, for the four provincial assemblies. The chief ministers of Punjab and Balochistan, Nawaz Sharif and Nawab Akber Bugti, advised the governors of the provinces to dissolve the provincial assemblies. The chief ministers of the other two provinces however, did not forward the same advice and the governors of Sindh and Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa (KP) acted to dissolve the assemblies of their own accord. Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, the leader of the opposition in the dissolved parliament, appointed the caretaker prime minister.
Caretaker chief ministers were also chosen by the president from the opposition. Three of them, Ghulam Haider Wyne in Punjab, Mir Afzal Khan in K-P and Jam Sadiq Ali in Sindh were to continue in their respective provinces as elected chief ministers after the 1990 elections. The exception was Balochistan, where Mir Hamayun Khan Marri, the caretaker chief minister, was replaced by Taj Mohammad Jamali after the elections.
(Courtesy: Church World Service and Free and Fair Election Network)
Published in The Express Tribune, May 5th, 2013.
President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government and dissolved the National Assembly on August 6, 1990.
The president invoked his powers granted under Article 58(2)b of the amended constitution. Fresh elections were announced to be held on October 24, 1990 for the lower house and on October 27, for the four provincial assemblies. The chief ministers of Punjab and Balochistan, Nawaz Sharif and Nawab Akber Bugti, advised the governors of the provinces to dissolve the provincial assemblies. The chief ministers of the other two provinces however, did not forward the same advice and the governors of Sindh and Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa (KP) acted to dissolve the assemblies of their own accord. Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, the leader of the opposition in the dissolved parliament, appointed the caretaker prime minister.
Caretaker chief ministers were also chosen by the president from the opposition. Three of them, Ghulam Haider Wyne in Punjab, Mir Afzal Khan in K-P and Jam Sadiq Ali in Sindh were to continue in their respective provinces as elected chief ministers after the 1990 elections. The exception was Balochistan, where Mir Hamayun Khan Marri, the caretaker chief minister, was replaced by Taj Mohammad Jamali after the elections.
(Courtesy: Church World Service and Free and Fair Election Network)
Published in The Express Tribune, May 5th, 2013.