Portal:Government of Pakistan

The Government of Pakistan Portal The Constitution of Pakistan provides for a Federal Parliamentary System of government, with a President as the Head of State and an indirectly-elected Prime Minister as the chief executive. The President of Pakistan is the Head of State and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, and is elected for a five-year term by the Electoral College of Pakistan - comprising the Senate, the National Assembly, and the four Provincial Assemblies. The President’s appointment and term are constitutionally independent of the Prime Minister’s term. The current President of Pakistan is Mamnoon Hussain, who came to power after the decline and fall of Pervez Musharraf. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, currently Nawaz Sharif, is usually the leader of the largest party in the National Assembly and is assisted by a cabinet of ministers drawn from both chambers of the federal legislature.

Selected article Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Urdu, Western Punjabi: نواز شریف, pronounced [nəˈʋaːz ʃəˈriːf]; born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician and industrialist who is serving as the current Prime Minister of Pakistan for the third term, previously having been Pakistan's 12th and 14th Prime Minister for two non-consecutive terms from November 1990 to July 1993 and from February 1997 to October 1999 respectively. Sharif is the president of Pakistan Muslim League (N), which is currently Pakistan's largest political party, and has formed the government. As the owner of Ittefaq Group, a leading business conglomerate, he is also one of the country's wealthiest men. He is commonly known as the "Lion of the Punjab" or "Tiger of Pakistan." (More about Nawaz Sharif) Did you know... The National Language Authority is an autonomous regulatory institution established in 1979 to support the advancement and promotion of Urdu which is the national language of Pakistan. Benazir Bhutto was the youngest woman ever to be elected the Head of Government and the first woman to be elected as the Head of Government of a Muslim country. Pakistan is a federation of four provinces, a capital territory and federally administered tribal areas. The Districts of Pakistan form the third tier of government in Pakistan, ranking as subdivisions of the provinces of Pakistan.

In the news Today is April 24, 2024 September 2 Pakistan's religious affairs minister escaped with a minor injury in an attack.(CNN) September 1 Militants suffer heavy casualties as fighting rages between security forces and militants.(CNN) August 26 Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan confirms that their former leader Baitullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained during a U.S. drone attack on August 5. August 22 Taliban official Hakeemullah Mehsud is selected as the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, a local Taliban commander in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas confirms. (CNN) August 21 A missile fired from a U.S. unmanned plane destroyed a suspected militant hide-out in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 12 people in a stronghold of a jihadi leader blamed for attacks in Afghanistan. (Associated Press) August 17 A bomb explodes on a truck at a fuel station in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan (20 km from Peshawar), killing seven people. (BBC News) August 14 Pakistan begins its first international freight train service from Islamabad to Istanbul. (BBC)

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