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	President of Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the Constitution, the President is chosen by an electoral college consisting of the Senate, National Assembly, and the provincial assemblies.
		The monarch was represented in Pakistan by a Governor-General of Pakistan.
		The constitution was revised, and the President became the ruler of Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/President_of_Pakistan (639 words)

	Line of Succession to President of Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pakistan had a parliamentary system of government that has been modified several times since its inception.
		The constitution does not allow for a Vice President, but the President of the Senate of Pakistan officiates in the absence of the President and takes over on the President's death or removal from office.
		The Electoral College of Pakistan is responsible for electing a new president.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Line_of_Succession_to_President_of_Pakistan (149 words)

	Encyclopedia: President of Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Senate of Pakistan is the upper House of the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan.
		The Pakistan Navy is the naval wing of the Pakistan military.
		According to the Constitution, the President is chosen by an electoral college consisting of the Senate, NationalAssembly, and the provincial assemblies.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/President-of-Pakistan (533 words)

	Pakistan - Economic analysis of government's policies, investment climate and political risk.
		Pakistan is an Islamic republic; of its population 97 percent are Muslim's, 2 percent are Christian's and 1 percent are Hindu's or Buddhists.
		Pakistan has fairly political effect on the country if it is in the rural or in the urban areas, elected representative are responsible to solve their problems.
		Pakistan spends of 35% of total nationa1 budget for the protection of the country and I think this is too much for a developing country to spend on defense rather than education and health.
	www.mkeever.com /pakistan.html (7304 words)

	President_of_Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The President of Pakistan is Pakistan's Head of State.
		NB: The head of state of Pakistan before 1956 was the King of Pakistan and before 1947 was the Emperor of India.
		The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/)es:Lista de presidentes de Pakistán
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=President_of_Pakistan (601 words)

	Pakistan - Nawaz Sharif (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As acting president, Ishaq Khan instituted an emergency council, and he and the council decided that general elections would be held in November 1988 and that political parties would be allowed to participate in them.
		Ishaq Khan was elected president by a combined sitting of the national and provincial assemblies, receiving 78 percent of the electoral votes.
		Pakistan's emerging two-party system was strengthened by the 1988 and 1990 elections and the constitutional transfer of power in 1990 from Benazir to Nawaz Sharif.
	countrystudies.us /pakistan/76.htm (2020 words)

	Pakistan - President Ghulam Ishaq Khan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The president, under the constitution, is elected by a majority of the members of the national and provincial assemblies.
		Ishaq Khan's position was considerably strengthened by the Eighth Amendment to the constitution, introduced by President Zia, which allows the president to dismiss the government and to override the government's choice of army chief.
		However, it was also noticeable that Benazir had stopped openly attacking the president, and some observers considered that she might be playing for time, hoping to use the differences between the president and the prime minister to her own advantage.
	countrystudies.us /pakistan/77.htm (591 words)

	U.S.-Pakistan Engagement: The War on Terrorism and Beyond: Special Reports: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		Pakistan was either consigned to benign neglect or hit with a succession of punitive sanctions that left in their trail resentment and a sense of betrayal.
		Pakistan's help was so critical to the success of U.S.-led efforts to expel the Soviets that it preempted any other concerns that the United States had toward Pakistan, such as those related to democracy and nuclear proliferation.
		Further, the success of the Afghan jihad under army patronage had fostered two illusions: one was an exaggerated perception of Pakistan's national strength and its strategic reach in the region, and the other was the army's vain hopes for recapturing the glory of Islam without the strength of faith or the power of the state.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr145.html (9177 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
		Zia-ul-Haq was the third person in the history of Pakistan to enforce martial law and halt civilian rule in the country.
		A referendum was held in December 1984, and the option was to elect or reject the General as the future President.
		The president, who had enjoyed absolute power for eight years, was not ready to share it with anybody else.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Muhammad_Zia-ul-Haq (582 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		The surprising first round success of the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front) party in the December 1991 balloting caused the army to intervene, crack down on the FIS, and postpone the subsequent elections.
		The government of former president MOBUTU Sese Seko was toppled by a rebellion led by Laurent KABILA in May 1997; his regime was subsequently challenged by a Rwanda- and Uganda-backed rebellion in August 1998.
		President Alberto FUJIMORI's election in 1990 ushered in a decade that saw a dramatic turnaround in the economy and significant progress in curtailing guerrilla activity.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In their efforts to maintain law and order in Pakistan and weaken nationalist and religious elements and political parties disliked by the army, the ISI and the army followed a policy of divide and rule.
		After the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, to keep the Shias of Pakistan under control, the ISI encouraged the formation of ant-Shia Sunni extremist organisations such as the Sipah Sahaba.
		The principle of civilian primacy in the intelligence community is widely accepted in all successful democracies and the discarding of this principle in Pakistan sowed the seeds for the present state of affairs there.
	www.saag.org /papers3/paper287.html (2274 words)

	Pervez Musharraf
		For the purpose of defending against such a charge, and to assure the continuity of his presidency, Musharraf exercised his presidential prerogative and held a referendum on April 30, 2002, asking voters to approve an extension of his presidential term to a period ending five years after the October elections.
		In a vote of confidence on January 1, 2004, Musharraf won 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, was "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007.
		As a result of this vote, according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, Musharraf was "deemed to be elected" to the office of President.
	pervez.musharraf.net /Pervez_Musharraf.htm (2778 words)

	Pakistan
		Pakistan is situated in the western part of the Indian subcontinent, with Afghanistan and Iran on the west, India on the east, and the Arabian Sea on the south.
		Pakistan was one of the two original successor states to British India, which was partitioned along religious lines in 1947.
		President Musharraf declared in December 2004 that he would retain his post as head of the army, a reversal of an earlier promise.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107861.html (1872 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: Democracy in Pakistan: The Way Forward (3/3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Pakistan’s desire to secure a Pakhto-dominant and friendly government in the guise of the Taliban regime on its western border drove it away from the United States and closer to global Islamists.
		Pakistan reflects an area of intense disagreement within American foreign policy circles – while there is broad consensus that a democratic, allied Pakistan is a necessary security partner in the long term, there is major disagreement over the extent to which cooperation with Musharraf benefits the United States over the short term.
		Finland's U.N. Ambassador Marjatta Rasi, the president of the 53-nation Economic and Social Council, then noted that the slate of candidates from Africa was uncontested, and it was approved by consensus as she banged her gavel.
	windsofchange.net /archives/004938.php (4029 words)

	Pakistan: Partition and Military Succession
		The report that Vice President Nixon had made statements in Afghanistan to the effect that he hoped the Pukhtoonistan issue could be solved was reported and commented upon in unfavorable terms here.
		This demand is aimed against the territorial integrity of Pakistan and questions a frontier which was delimited and demarcated through an international treaty and which has been in existence and respected as such for over three quarters of a century.
		President Daud has long contended that Pakistan should allow the people of the two border provinces, which the Afghans label Pashtunistan, the freedom to establish either an autonomous or independent state.
	www.icdc.com /~paulwolf/pakistan/pashtunistan.htm (4805 words)

	Heroin, Taliban & Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mrs.Benazir again had him sacked on her return to power in 1993 and arrested and prosecuted him on charges of indulging in illegal activities, but he was acquitted.
		After capturing power on October 12,1999, Gen.Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's self-reinstated Chief of the Army Staff (COAS), self-styled Chief Executive and self-promoted President, had Brig.Imtiaz, because of his proximity to Mr.Sharif, rearrested and prosecuted for having assets disproportionate to his known sources of income as an officer of the ISI and the IB.
		Before 1998, opium was being grown in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan and in the Nangarhar province in Taliban-controlled Afghan territory.
	www.saag.org /papers3/paper288.html (1753 words)

	TPMCafe \|\| Line of Succession
		Composing the NCA are the President (or successor) and the Secretary of Defense (or successor).
		Obviously, the line of succession for the Presidency is well established.
		If the political appointee were in the NCA line of succession, under Goldwater-Nichols, the President (or successor) and SECDEF (or successor) does, in fact, give orders to the Combatant Commanders, such as NORTHCOM.
	www.tpmcafe.com /story/2005/12/30/15535/136 (4088 words)

	One bomber ID’d in Pakistan assassination try - World News - MSNBC.com
		ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Officials have identified the body of one of three suicide attackers who detonated bombs in a devastating attack that barely missed the convoy of Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, and killed 14 people, the interior minister said Friday.
		In a televised interview late Thursday, the president — a close ally in the U.S. war on terrorism — blamed Islamic militants for the recent assassination attempts against him and vowed to “cleanse the country of these extremists,” calling them enemies of Islam and Pakistan.
		The deal, in which Musharraf would stay on as president, ended a stalemate that had paralyzed Parliament and stalled this nation’s return to democracy.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3800883 (914 words)

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		They are not on-line, to contact them send them a letter at the address on their letter, or call their phone number.
	www.bettertimesinfo.org /alllinks.htm (13146 words)

	Human Rights Watch World Report 2002: Asia: Pakistan
		Introduced at the national and provincial levels by Pakistan's last military ruler, General Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq, the separate electoral system reserved a limited number of seats for each minority community and limited the franchise of non-Muslim citizens to the seats that had been allotted to their respective communities.
		A visit to Pakistan by Secretary of State Colin Powell in mid-October was largely overshadowed by renewed fighting in Kashmir, which ended a ten-month cease-fire.
		The ministers agreed that Pakistan should remain suspended from the councils of the Commonwealth pending the restoration of democracy.
	www.hrw.org /wr2k2/asia9.html (2935 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Bin Laden's line of succession
		Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has ordered the military to interrogate 250 suspected Islamic radicals, including 170 alleged members of the outlawed militant group Gamaat al-Islamiyya, according to News 24, a South African news agency.
		The crackdown is aimed at preempting a surge of unrest in Egypt led by Islamic militants.
		Another key Egyptian is Ayman al-Zawahiri, a 50-year-old surgeon thought to be bin Laden's right-hand man. He founded the militant Egyptian Islamic Jihad and was jailed in connection with the 1981 assassination of President Anwar Sadat.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24982 (877 words)

	Senate moves up homeland security secretary in line of succession
		CAPITOL HILL The Senate has approved a bill to raise the homeland security secretary from last to eighth place in the presidential line of succession, just after the attorney general.
		If president Bush would be unable to serve, he would be replaced by Vice President Cheney, followed by House Speaker Dennis Hastert.
		The Constitution, however, requires that the president be a natural-born citizen, so Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, born in Cuba -- and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, born in Taiwan, would be ineligible.
	www.wboc.com /Global/story.asp?S=3644475 (354 words)

	matthewgood/mblog » Up Next In The Line Of Succession (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While President George Bush hints at eventual troop withdrawals, the Pentagon is busy building four major, permanent air bases in Iraq that will require heavy infantry protection.
		The USAF uses the same combat air patrol tactic in Afghanistan, with even more success.
		The U.S. is also developing three major air bases in Pakistan, and others across Central Asia, to support its plans to dominate the region’s oil and gas reserves.â
	www.matthewgood.org /mblog?p=278 (1801 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pakistan - President Ghulam Ishaq Khan as Power Broker \| Pakistani Information Resource
		AllRefer.com - Pakistan - President Ghulam Ishaq Khan as Power Broker
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		General Waheed, who is not known to have any political ambitions, is from the same ethnic group as Ishaq Khan--the Pakhtuns of the North-West Frontier Province (see Linguistic and Ethnic Groups, ch.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/pakistan/pakistan123.html (747 words)

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