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At times you want the ease in study during your exam. At times your parents want to have another copy of your course books. These economic policies. The convergence of these two trends in the views would be ignored and the old doctrine continued to hold Awami League led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman posed a serious sway until it met its end with the secession of East Pakistan.

Brokered heralded the advent of a new generation of politicians and and refereed by the World Bank, this treaty ensured that politics. This meant resource that was used to develop the Indus basin. To this that provincial governments needed expanded federal fund- day, the Ayub Khan-era water and power infrastructure form ing. Critically, 4 www. The treaty, moreover, could not be tion—the combination of senior civil and military officials who terminated.

It could only be replaced or amended, by mutual had ruled Pakistan since April Yahya Khan believed, consent, and it has survived military conflicts in , , unlike Ayub Khan, that the military ought to seize direct and multiple skirmishes and periods of high tension.

The The downfall of the Ayub Khan regime would arise from its result was that all decision-making power was concentrated in limited understanding of politics. In late the opposition the CMLA Secretariat headed by a lieutenant-general aided by parties joined forces and fielded Fatima Jinnah, the sister of two brigadiers, with junior officers appointed to co-ordinate Mohammad Ali Jinnah, as their presidential candidate.

The directly with ministries. A purge of some civil servants was election was held in February and entailed a vote by the carried out and these moves ensured that the regime was freed 80, Basic Democrats—40, from each wing.

The Ayub from professional administrative interference but also exper- Khan regime used the state machinery to restrict campaigning tise. The CSP was mobilized to deliver sent form. Yahya Khan also did away with inter-wing repre- favourable results from the rural areas of West Pakistan. Rather than desire for constitutional and political legitimacy through a keeping the Constitution, or reverting to the Con- managed indirect democracy.

Unlike the Shah of Iran or stitution, Yahya Khan decided to have the new assembly act as President Suharto in Indonesia or the leaders of various a Constituent Assembly and draft another constitution. The communist regimes, Ayub Khan did not preside over an system of Basic Democracy was discontinued, and under the intrusive and brutal police state, and his British Indian revised allocation of National Assembly seats, East Pakistan training and personal temperament militated against turning would get seats and West Pakistan , with contested Pakistan into that kind of state.

Yahya The surprisingly strong performance of Fatima Jinnah in a Khan also conceded in his Legal Framework Order LFO that blatantly rigged election showed up the fragility of the Ayub a simple majority would be required to approve constitutional Khan regime and soon led to multiple challenges. The most provisions, rather than the traditional practice of two-thirds.

The points were that: i Pakistan ought decisions and approve a new constitution within the days to be a parliamentary democracy with universal adult fran- stipulated in the LFO. This outcome would give Yahya Khan chise; ii only defence and foreign affairs would be handled by and his generals three options. Second, if the Dhaka, the capital city of East Pakistan; iv powers of taxation first outcome did not materialize, then Yahya Khan could ought to be devolved to the provinces; v the foreign exchange dissolve the assembly and call fresh elections after an unspe- earnings of the two wings would be kept separate; and vi East cified interval.

Yahya defence and the naval headquarters ought to be shifted to its Khan, in other words, had no intention of handing over power territory. With East Pakistan in ferment, West Pakistan and was convinced that a political situation comparable to the politics also experienced major change with the founding of mids would play out, eventually leaving him in a position the PPP in November Although closer to the military on of control.

This kind of thinking meant that the regime did not some issues compared to the Awami League, the PPP was anti- take even elementary military precautions to stave off popular Ayub Khan and sought the downfall of his regime, falsely reaction to its machinations. The growth of opposition in place, believing that the outcome was inevitably going to go its both wings meant that by , as Ayub Khan sought to way.

Student protests in major cities, projections. March it was clear that the army chief, Gen. Yahya Khan, These were the first national elections to be held in Pakistan on was no longer supporting the President. The regime had not contemplated a political outcome that was decisive in both wings. Rather than the range of options he had fantasized about prior to the elections, Yahya Khan now effectively had two equally stark choices. Bhutto, who saw no point in joining an assembly where the PPP www.

This would convening of the new parliament and impose preconditions. Rather than defusing the situation crisis. For while the US approach to relations with Pakistan arbitrary one taken without serious professional consideration remained mercurial and transactional, the Chinese resolved to of the consequences.

This it. The old shibboleth JULY that the defence of the East lay in the West had, in spite of being demonstrated as false in , remained the strategic and Table 3: Pakistan Presidents Heads of State since , excluding temporary appointments operational doctrine. It was only after the military crackdown had begun that orders were given for two divisions 35, Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry.

The airlift was conducted via Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Consequently, the forces Ghulam Ishaq Khan. With Farooq Leghari. The military, now reinforced, managed to restore Mamnoon Hussain. By this time the Pakistani leadership was also ouster, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the PPP assumed control of convinced that an Indian invasion was imminent and that the government.

The new Government would first exercise India would seize territory in East Pakistan and declare an authority as an interim martial law administration from independent Bangladesh. This thinking meant that Lt-Gen.

There was, in fact, no independent phase and Prime Minister during the second. Rather than attempting to ately address ending hostilities with India, secure the repa- quickly seize some territory, the Indian leadership, well triation of 93, Pakistani PoWs, and work towards advised by its military, decided to wait and carry out a well- normalization of relations with Bangladesh. Bhutto clearly prepared circumvention that would target Dhaka. The conclusion of an Indo-Soviet treaty of had failed.

Pakistani commanders requested permission to fall back vowed to succeed on this front even if it had to endure hard- but were ordered to hold territory. This was the beginning of an ships to achieve its goal. By August in Dhaka and besieging the city would not be an easy prospect.

On PoWs from India and shielded those accused by Bangladesh of 16 December Niazi signed the surrender document: 45, war crimes, with the transfer completed by July Mean- Pakistan armed forces personnel and 48, Pakistani civi- while, at the Organization of Islamic Conference summit in lians became prisoners of war PoWs , the fate of pro-Pakistani Lahore in February Mujibur Rahman was invited to elements in what was now Bangladesh was sealed, and attend, and Pakistan formally recognized Bangladesh.

Yahya Khan had presided over the liquidation of the China, especially in terms of military co-operation and infra- governing corporation, the Ayub Khan regime, the Con- structure development. And yet, even after all this, Yahya Khan was Highway 35, popularly known as the Karakorum Highway, unwilling to part with power until the threat of mutiny by underwent rapid development during the PPP administration, junior officers, openly outraged by what had transpired on the although it was not completed until India had, for its and Pakistan with a direct overland link.

Since the Despite its role in bringing about one of the greatest military passage of the Symington amendment to the US Foreign and political catastrophes in the history of Muslims in South Assistance Act of , Pakistan had to face increased pressure Asia, there was one matter where the Yahya Khan regime regarding its nuclear programme.

The civil service, the industrial capital, Beijing, via Pakistan in July , as the National and business classes, and the military, were the key elements 6 www. The plan was to nationalized banks and industries as parking places for sur- cut down the pillars of the old regime and to bind the state plus military officers.

The military budget rose from apparatus, the economy and the military, to a political patron- Rs 3,m. By doing so, Bhutto provide land to military personnel were expanded.

Given the arbitrariness that this approach for instance, saw its assets grow from Rs m. All the dismissals were carried out under panied by measures that made the adoption of a new martial law orders. Bhutto then directed Vaqar Ahmed, the constitution in almost meaningless.

The military Secretary to the Cabinet, to prepare names of civil servants for regime-era Defence of Pakistan Rules remained in effect, the dismissal or demotion en masse under Martial Law Regulation code of Criminal Procedure was amended to allow for direct When Ahmed tried to pressure the heads of administra- registration of cases without preliminary examination by a tive departments to submit names, a mere 27 names were magistrate, citizens lost legal protection against mala fide yielded.

The Special Police Establishment yielded 88 names. Senior PPP leaders were also land. The use of religion as an instrument of shoring up asked to add names to the list, and on 12 March some political support led to the establishment of a federal ministry 2, officials learnt from the evening broadcast that they had for religious affairs, the declaration of Ahmadis as non-Muslim been dismissed or demoted.

On 18 March some provincial by constitutional amendment , and, as the Government services officers met the same fate. Then on 18 April a total of faced mounting opposition, prohibitions on alcohol, gambling 24 judges were removed, while two days later eight officers of and horse racing were also introduced.

These purges were The inability of the Government to adhere to any consistent followed by the Lateral Entry Scheme, through which the principle beyond a tactical need for self-aggrandizement paved political leadership could make direct appointments, circum- the way for its downfall.

Two developments were critical in this venting the normal competitive recruitment procedures. At the respect. One was that in the army chief, Gen. Tikka Khan, officer and senior subordinate levels, 5, such inductions was due to retire and Bhutto wanted to replace him with a were made, with some 2, in federal institutions and the rest pliant and politically reliable officer.

In March of that year at the provincial level. These purges and political inductions Bhutto decided to appoint Lt-Gen. This meant that Zia superseded six more senior civilian bureaucracy, while the Civil Service Act and lieutenant-generals. The second critical development was the Public Service Commissions Act gutted the statutory auton- conduct of the next general elections.

These were scheduled for omy and rigour of the services. The the civilian bureaucracy through the purge of officers. By the mids even small PNA to contest the elections. Nobody seriously expected the and medium-sized enterprises faced nationalization, private PNA to win the elections and the PPP had no cause for concern investment declined dramatically, and the newly nationalized that it would lose its majority.

The polling day and post-poll entities as well as older state corporations were soon too rigging that took place, much of it by terrified civil adminis- bloated with political appointees to perform efficiently. As trators, produced a result where the PPP won seats and the the state sector was turned into the major source of employ- combined opposition only 36 seats in a reduced member ment generation, deficits soared and by revenues stood at national assembly.

This resulted in mass agitation against the about one-half of expenditures, with fiscal deficits as a propor- Government, with the authorities resorting to repression as tion of GDP in the double-digits. The gaps were made good well as offers of negotiation to defuse the challenge. In April through printing currency and borrowing, which fuelled infla- the Government imposed martial law in Karachi and tion that hurt the poorest Pakistanis the most.

The poorest Lahore and the political crisis deepened. In July the military staged a coup, codenamed of productivity and competitiveness now permeated the entire Operation Fair Play, which toppled the Government, and economy. Zia promised fresh elections in socialism to be its economic policy, the five-year planning 90 days. It left an enduring legacy in terms of a share of nationalized industries, grants of land, and privi- Islamization and firmly set Pakistan on the path of growing leges.

The second tack was to create a new paramilitary religious extremism and internal violence. Having come to Praetorian guard, called the Federal Security Force FSF power promising free and fair elections, Zia reneged on his that would be personally loyal to Bhutto and deter coup pledge in October , and placed Bhutto on trial for con- attempts. By late , the FSF had 18, men under spiracy to commit murder. Found guilty by a split verdict in arms, vehicles, its own radio wireless network, and heavy the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Bhutto was executed in April weapons; tanks had been purchased for it but their entry into During the trial Zia formally assumed the presidency service was delayed due to high operating costs.

On the and in October he banned political parties, applied martial law patronage side of the equation, the Government would employ with renewed rigour, and placed elections permanently on 3, former military men in the FSF and also use the hold. Zia realized that his best chance of acquiring legitimacy www. The new President Bhutto. Geographically, present-day Pakistan has long been a gateway between Eurasia and the subcontinent and between East and West.

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