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Pakistan is under the constitution of 1973,which provides for a federal form of parliamentary form of gov. They have a president which is the head of state, and is elected to a 5-year term by the electoral college drawn from the national parlaiment and provincial assemblies. The prime minister runs the government and is selected by the National Assembly. [|Infoplease] Please move this comment to the space below, where it responds to previously posted comments/ questions.

Pakistan has an [|embassy in Washington, DC].

After looking up, "Government of Pakistan" I learned that Afghanistan has a president and a prime minister. The president's name is Asif Ali Zardari as of 2008 and the prime minister is Yousaj Raza Gilani as of 2008. I got this information from [|infoplease.com]. I discovered, from the same website that they have under military rule since 1999. A nominal democracy was declared in **(finish this thought and delete my comment here) ** I was on [|Info Please.com] after looking up, "Pakistan's history and government", and I read that both India and Pakistan claimed the Kashmir region to be theirs. The dispute led to war in 1949, 1965, 1971, and 1999. It still remains unsolved who it belongs to today.

Pakistan has a Parliamentary Democray with the executive is the president and the prime minister, Legislative, and the Judical which is the supreme court.

What is the difference between a president and a prime minister? Why does Pakistan have both?

Dictionary.com says that a president is "an officer appointed or elected to preside over an organized body of persons". The same website says that a prime minister is "the principal minister and head of government in parliamentary systems; chief of the cabinet or ministry". The Pakistan Ministry of Information and Broadcasting says that the president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of the government. The president does get to choose the prime minister, but the president mostly follows the advice of the prime minister.

What type of goverment does Pakistan have and how and when did the current goverment come into being?

I also looked on [|infoplease.com]  to answer this question, and I learned that a nominal democracy was stated in June of 2001 by the current military leader, Pervez Musharraf. Before then, however, Pakistan was where the Indus River Civilization was located. A long time later, Pakistan became part of British India until it was religiously partitioned in 1947. When this partition occurred, there was West Pakistan and East Pakistan, now as modern Bangladesh. Since then, Pakistan has become a war-torn and poor-stricken country due to fights over regions of land and other disputes that still remain unresolved.

The first call for a Muslim state in India was in 1930 by poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. He wanted all the four northwest provinces to be joined in a state or it’s own territory. The four northwest provinces are Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, and the North-West Frontier Province. A Cambridge student, Choudhary Rahmat Ali, tagged the name Pakstan, which later became Pakistan, in dedication of the Muslims that are living in Punjab, in a 1933. According to [|History Of Pakistan] The name "Pakistan" is an acronym. What does it stand for? ** //Pakistan// is derived from the Urdu words //Pak// meaning pure and //stan// meaning country therefore it means pure country. This information is from [|Infoplease].
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The acronym Pakistan stands for Punjab, Afghan Border Stantes, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan. [|Acronym Finder]

After looking up on [|sportscomet.com], I learned that the word Pakistan means "Land of the Pure."

Pakistan stands for Punjab, Afgania, Kashmir, Iran, Sindh, Tukharistan, Afghanistan, and Balochistan. It means the land of Paks. These are the homelands of the scholars who made the acronym. ** Source, please (the delete my comment). **

Do Pakistan and Afghanistan get along? Yes Pakistan and Afghanistan get along as of today. President Karzai of Afghanistan, and President Zardari of Pakistan have a good relationship. They are doing there best to be productive between the two countries[|. Cfr.org] gave me this information.

At [|Acheivement] I found out that Benazir Bhutto was the former Prime Minister of Pakistan. She was born on June 21, 1953 and died December 27, 2007. Born into a political family, she spent her childhood in Karachi, Pakistan, her birthplace. She left her homeland at age 16 to study at Harvard's Radcliffe College. She completed her undergraduate’s degree and left to study at Oxford University in England where she was awarded a second degree in 1977.
 * Who was Benazir Bhutto?**

According to [|Fact Monster], Benazir Bhutto was also the first woman leader of the Muslim community. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was her father, who was overthrown for Prime Minister shortly after Benazir Bhutto returned from education at Oxford and Radcliffe.

Benazir Bhutto is the daughter of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, a political leader and former Prime Minister. She went to Harvard University at age 16. In 1977 she returned to Pakistan and was put under house arrest because her father was arrested. In 1979 Shaheed was hanged. Benazir then became the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party. In 1988 she became Prime Minister but, her government was illegally dismissed. In 1996 she was removed from the government, and lived in exile in the UK until she was assassinated in 2007. [|Benazir Bhutto]

Benazir Bhutto died by assassination. Two gunmen/suicide bombers shot her but missed and she had ducked but a bomb went off and she died by a fracture in her skull when she hit her head when the bomb went off. This was said at [|ABCnews.com]. On [|ABC news website] they tell you how she died. **Please don't just point to the website-- read and post the answer in your own words (then link at the end of your comment).**
 * How did Benazir Bhutto die?**

According to the [|Academy of Achievements], a man shot at her car, and she was rushed to the hospital but later died of severe injuries. More than 20 bystanders went down with her.

**Why was she a hero to many Pakistanis?** Benazir Bhutto campaigned openly to support democracy. She gave her life to make Pakistan a freer nation how ever she did it.

After her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (prime minister of Pakistan) was overthrown by the military, Benazir Bhutto started anti-government rallies and was arrested many times. She and many other Pakistan people were against the harsh rule of the gouvernment. She was a hero by becoming the first woman prime minister in Pakistan. I got this information from [|Achievement.org]

Pakistan had a horrible earthquake in October 2005 it sadly killed 73,000 people, leaving thousands more homeless. I found this information at [|merlin-usa.org] it has some more facts!

I learned that Benazir Bhutto was a hero because she led the country to democracy, but after her assassination no one led democracy. I learned this at [|Newsweek.com]

I learned that t he worst fear, of residents of India and Pakistan, the region and the world, is that irresponsible governments in both, or either country, could resort to the extreme measure of using nuclear weapons against one another. [|South Asian journal]

 A series of invaders—Aryans, Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and others—controlled the region, of Pakistan, for several thousand years. The Mogul Empire took over the land of Pakistan in 1526. This empire ruled most of the Indian subcontinent from the 16th to the mid-18th century. The British became the ruler of the region by 1857. With the Hindus holding most of the economic, social, and political advantages, the Muslim people’s dissatisfaction grew higher and higher. This led to the formation of the nationalist Muslim League, in 1906. This formation was led by Mohammed Ali Jinnah from 1876-1949. Learn more by going to [REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN|unigroup.com.]

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The man who was recently captured in Pakistan was Commander Mullah Abdul Ghani of the Taliban. He is the top military commander of the Taliban and was captured in Karachi, Pakistan. The American intelligence forces and Pakistani captured him in the through secret plan. He was one of the most significant captured Taliban commanders since the war eight years ago. For more information go to [|New York Times.com].

Pakistan's government is a presidential-parliamentary. The president is President Asif Ali Zardari.

Pakistan was originated in 1947. In 1971 East Pakistan is trying to break away and so East and West Pakistan go to war. Bangladesh was created after India intervened on behalf of East Pakistan. I got this information at [|Quick Pakistan History]