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Pakistan Essay, Research Paper

Pakistan

Steve Olker

Core 132

Pakistan is a country that, since its creation, has been rooted in

turmoil. The recent years are no exception to this. Since 1988, power has been

divided among the president, the prime minister and the military. Tensions

between the three, however, have led to eight changes of government and three

elections. No elected leader has ever completed a full term in office. Benazir

Bhutto, who was dismissed by the president in August 1990 after only twenty-one

months in office, is the only Pakistani leader to be given a second chance at

ruling (Newberg 19). On October 6, 1993 a general election was held in

Pakistan. The Pakistan People’s Party (or PPP) received a majority of the vote

and as a result Benazir Bhutto once again became prime minister. This time

however, she has a pliant president in the form of an old friend. On November

13, 1993, Farooq Leghari was elected the country president. Yet even with this

unique opportunity for agreement within the ruling circle reforms have not taken

place (The Europa World Year Book 2460).

Despite the PPP’s success in the 1993 election they still faced

uncertainty. They lack not only a parliamentary majority but unity within their

own ranks. One of the biggest problems was a bitter family feud between Benazir

Bhutto and her mother, Begum and brother, Murtaza. Murtaza had returned from

exile to claim a seat in the Sind provincial assembly, but was immediately

arrested for alleged terrorist activity. In late December 1993, Benazir removed

her mother as PPP co-chair after she had endorsed Murtaza’s claim that he was

the rightful heir to his father’s political legacy. However, in September 1994,

the family feud seemed to end during a visit of the prime minister to her mother

(Banks 717).

In Pakistan the end of the cold war had not brought on new, pragmatic

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