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Pakistan officially Islamic Republic of Pakistan republic 2015 est pop 189381000 310403 sq mi 803944 sq km S Asia Pakistan is bordered by India on the east the Arabian Sea on the south Iran on the southwest and Afghanistan on the west and north in the northeast is the disputed territory with India of Kashmir of which the part occupied by Pakistan borders also on China Islamabad is the capital and Karachi is the largest city Pakistan is composed of four provinces— Baluchistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa formerly North-West Frontier Province Punjab and Sind all of which closely coincide with the historic regions—and two federal territories one the site of the capital and the other a federally administered grouping known as the Tribal Areas along the central Afghanistan border The Tribal Areas are essentially autonomous with little government presence and are governed largely by tribal traditions and councils Pakistani-controlled Kashmir is divided into the Gilgit-Baltisan formerly the Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir Pakistan formerly consisted of two regions—West Pakistan and East Pakistan—located in the northwestern and northeastern corners of the Indian subcontinent and separated from each other by more than 1000 mi 1610 km of India East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh following the 1971 civil war Land The country has a generally hot and dry climate with desert conditions prevailing throughout much of the area Along the western border and in a section of the north are semiarid steppelands and deserts a subtropical climate with marked summer rainfall is found in a small section of the northeast along the Himalayan foothills and a mountain climate that varies with altitude is found in the north The Indus is the chief river of Pakistan and is the nation’s lifeline It flows the length of the country and is fed by the combined waters of three of the five rivers of Punjab—the Chenab Jhelum and Ravi The waters of the other two rivers the Beas and the Sutlej are largely withdrawn for irrigation in India Along the Indus and its tributaries are found most of Pakistan’s population its chief agricultural areas and its major hydroelectric power stations Pakistan may be divided into four geographic regions—the plateau of W Pakistan the plains of the Indus and Punjab rivers the hills of NW Pakistan and the mountains of N Pakistan The plateau region of W Pakistan which is roughly coextensive with Baluchistan prov is an arid region with relatively wetter conditions in its northern sections Numerous low mountain ranges rise from the plateau and the Hingol and Dasht rivers are among the largest streams Large portions of the region are unfit for agriculture and although some cotton is raised nomadic sheep grazing is the principal activity Coal chromite and natural gas are found in this area and fishing and salt trading are carried on along the rugged Makran coast Quetta the chief city is an important railroad center on the line between Afghanistan and the Indus valley East of the plateau region are extensive alluvial plains through which flow the Indus and its tributaries The region closely coinciding with Sind and Punjab provinces is hot and dry and is occupied in its eastern borders by the Thar Desert Extensive irrigation facilities fed by the waters of the Indus system make the Indus basin the agricultural heartland of Pakistan A variety of crops especially wheat rice and cotton are raised there Advances in agricultural engineering have countered the salinity problems involved in farming the Indus delta The irrigated portions of the plain are densely populated being the site of many of Pakistan’s principal cities including Lahore Faisalabad formerly Lyallpur Hyderabad and Multan Karachi the nation’s chief port is located west of the irrigated land at a site accessible to oceangoing vessels The higher parts of the plain in the north as in the vicinity of Lahore have a more humid subtropical climate In NW Pakistan occupying about two thirds of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a region of low hills and plateaus interspersed with fertile valleys The elevation of the region tempers the arid climate It is a predominantly agricultural area with wheat the chief crop fruit trees and livestock are also raised Peshawar and Rawalpindi the largest cities of this area are the only major manufacturing centers In the northern section of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in the Pakistani-occupied sector of Kashmir are the rugged ranges and the high snowcapped peaks of the Hindu Kush Himalaya and Karakorum mountains Tirich Mir 25236 ft/7692 m is the highest point in the country outside Kashmir People Pakistan has one of the world’s most rapidly growing populations Its people are a mixture of many ethnic groups a result of the occupation of the region by groups passing through on their way to India The Pathans Pashtuns of the northwest are a large indigenous group that has long resisted advances by invaders and that has at times sought to establish an autonomous state within Pakistan Baluchis who live mainly in the southwest have also pressed for the creation of a state that would incorporate parts of Afghanistan and Iran Punjabis reside mainly in the northeast and Sindhis in the southeast Pakistan is an overwhelmingly about 97 Muslim country about three fourths of the Muslims are Sunnis largely Sufis and the rest Shiites Urdu is the official language but Punjabi Sindhi Pashto Baluchi Hindko and Brahui are also spoken English is common among the upper classes and in the government Economy Agriculture is the mainstay of Pakistan’s economy employing more than 40 of the population Cotton wheat rice sugarcane fruits vegetables and tobacco are the chief crops and cattle sheep and poultry are raised There is also a fishing industry Most of Pakistan’s agricultural output comes from the Indus basin The country is now self-sufficient in food as vast irrigation schemes have extended farming into arid areas and fertilizers and new varieties of crops have increased yields Pakistan’s industrial base is able to supply many of the country’s needs in consumer goods and other products The country major manufactures textiles the biggest earner of foreign exchange processed foods pharmaceuticals construction materials paper products and fertilizer Remittances from Pakistanis working abroad constitute the second largest source of foreign exchange Since the mid-1950s electric power output has greatly increased mainly because of the development of hydroelectric power potential and the use of thermal power plants The annual cost of Pakistan’s imports usually exceeds its earnings from exports The chief imports are petroleum machinery plastics transportation equipment edible oils paper iron and steel and tea Exports include textiles and clothing rice leather and sporting goods chemicals and carpets The chief trading partners are the United States the United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia and China Government Pakistan is governed under the constitution of 1973 as amended which provides for a federal parliamentary form of government The president who is head of state is elected to a five-year term by an electoral college drawn from the national parliament and provincial assemblies The government is headed by the prime minister who is selected by the National Assembly There is a bicameral legislature The National Assembly has 342 members 272 of them elected by popular vote with 60 seats reserved for women and 10 for non-Muslims all serve five-year terms The 100 members of the Senate are indirectly elected by provincial assemblies and the territories’ representatives in the National Assembly they serve six-year terms Each province has its own legislative assembly whose members are elected by direct popular vote a provincial governor appointed by the president and a chief minister elected by the legislative assembly There is an independent judicial branch of government Administratively the country is divided into four provinces and two territories History Early History The northwest of the Indian subcontinent which now constitutes Pakistan lies athwart the historic invasion routes through the Khyber Gumal and Bolan passes from central Asia to the heartland of India and for thousands of years invaders and adventurers swept down upon the settlements there The Indus valley civilization which flourished from c2600BC to c1900 BC was one of the region’s earliest civilizations The Aryans who surpassed the Indus were followed by the Persians of the Achaemenid empire who by c500 BC reached the Indus River Alexander the Great conqueror of the Persian empire invaded the Punjab in 326 BC The Seleucid empire heir to Alexander’s Indian conquest was checked by the Mauryas who by 305 BC occupied the Indus plain and much of Afghanistan After the fall of the Mauryas 2d cent BC the Indo-Greek Bactrian kingdom rose to power but was in turn overrun c97 BC by Scythian nomads called Saka and then by the Parthians cAD 7 The Parthians of Persian stock were replaced by the Kushans the Kushan Kanishka ruled 2d cent AD all of what is now Pakistan from his capital at Peshawar In 712 the Muslim Arabs appeared in force and conquered Sind and by 900 they controlled most of NW India They were followed by the Ghaznavid and Ghorid Turks The first Turki invaders reached Bengal c1200 and an important Muslim center was established there principally through conversion of the Hindus Although the northeast of the Indian subcontinent now Bangladesh remained with interruptions part of a united Mughal empire in India from the early 16th cent to 1857 the northwest changed hands many times before it became 1857 part of imperial British India It was overrun by Persians in the late 1730s by the Afghans who held Sind and the Punjab during the latter half of the 18th cent and by the Sikhs who rose to power in the Punjab under Ranjit Singh 1780–1839 British Control and the Muslim League The British attempted to subdue the anarchic northwest during the First Afghan War 1839–42 and succeeded in conquering Sind in 1843 and the Punjab in 1849 The turbulence of the region was intensified by the fierce forays of Baluchi and Pathan tribespeople from the mountainous hinterlands The British occupied Quetta in 1876 and again attempted to conquer the tribespeople in the Second Afghan War 1878–80 but were still unsuccessful With the creation of the North-West Frontier Province now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 1901 the British shifted from a policy of conquest to one of containment Unlike previous settlers in India the Muslim immigrants were not absorbed into Hindu society Their ranks were augmented by the millions of Hindus who had been converted to Islam There was cultural interchange between Hindu and Muslim but no homogeneity emerged After the Indian Mutiny 1857 a rising Hindu middle class began to assume dominant positions in industry education the professions and the civil service Although in these early decades of the Indian National Congress vigorous efforts were made to include Muslims in the nationalist movement concern for Muslim political rights led to the formation of the Muslim League in 1906 in the ensuing years Hindu-Muslim conflict became increasingly acute The idea of a Muslim nation distinct from Hindu India was introduced in 1930 by the poet Muhammad Iqbal and was ardently supported by a group of Indian Muslim students in England who were the first to use the name Pakistan land of the pure from the Urdu pakpure and stanland It gained wide support in 1940 when the Muslim League led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah demanded the establishment of a Muslim state in the areas of India where Muslims were in the majority The League won most of the Muslim constituencies in the 1946 elections and Britain and the Congress party reluctantly agreed to the formation of Pakistan as a separate dominion under the provisions of the Indian Independence Act which went into effect on Aug 15 1947 Partition and Conflict Jinnah became the governor-general of the new nation and Liaquat Ali Khan the first prime minister While India inherited most of the British administrative machinery Pakistan had to start with practically nothing records and Muslim administrators were transferred from New Delhi to a chaotic makeshift capital at Karachi Moreover an autumn of violence and slaughter among Hindus and Muslims came between independence and the task of developing the new nation Disturbances in Delhi were only a prelude to the slaughter in the Punjab where the Gurdaspur district had been partitioned to give India access to Kashmir Although there was some violence in Calcutta now Kolkata the efforts of Mohandas K Gandhi prevented widespread killing in partitioned Bengal The communal strife took more than 500000 lives 75 million Muslim refugees fled to both parts of Pakistan from India and 10 million Hindus left Pakistan for India Disputes between India and Pakistan arose also over the princely states of Junagadh Hyderabad and Kashmir In the first two Muslim rulers held sway over a Hindu majority but India forcibly joined both states to the Union dismissing the wishes of the rulers and basing its claims instead on the wishes of the people and the facts of geography In Kashmir the situation was precisely the opposite a Hindu ruler held sway over a Muslim majority in a country that was geographically and economically tied to West Pakistan The ruler signed over Kashmir to India in Oct 1947 but Pakistan refused to accept the move Fighting broke out see India-Pakistan Wars and continued until Jan 1948 when India and Pakistan both appealed to the United Nations each accusing the other of aggression A cease-fire was agreed upon and a temporary demarcation line partitioned 1949 the disputed state In the meantime Pakistan faced serious internal problems A liberal statement of constitutional principles was promulgated in 1949 but parts of the proposed constitution ran into orthodox Muslim opposition On Oct 16 1951 Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated by an Afghan fanatic His death left a leadership void that prime ministers Khwaja Nazimuddin 1951–53 and Muhammad Ali 1953–55 and governor-general Ghulam Muhammad 1951–55 failed to fill In East Bengal which had more than half of the nation’s population there was increasing dissatisfaction with the federal government in West Pakistan In 1954 faced with growing crises the government dissolved the constituent assembly and declared a state of emergency In 1955 the existing provinces and princely states of West Pakistan were merged into a single province made up of 12 divisions and the name of East Bengal was changed to East Pakistan thus giving it at least the appearance of parity with West Pakistan In Feb 1956 a new constitution was finally adopted and Pakistan formally became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Gen Iskander Mirza became the first president Economic conditions remained precarious even though large shipments of grain from the United States after 1953 had helped to relieve famine In foreign relations Pakistan’s conflict with India over Kashmir remained unresolved and Afghanistan continued its agitation for the formation of an autonomous Pushtunistan nation made up of the Pathan tribespeople along the northwest frontier Pakistan joined the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in 1954 and the Central Treaty Organization in 1955 After 1956 the threat to the stability of the Pakistan government gradually increased stemming from continuing economic difficulties frequent cabinet crises and widespread political corruption The Ayub Khan Regime Finally in Oct 1958 President Mirza abrogated the constitution and granted power to the army under Gen Muhammad Ayub Khan Ayub subsequently assumed presidential powers in 1960 he was elected to a five-year term abolishing the office of prime minister and ruling by decree Under the dictatorship a vigorous land reform and economic development program was begun and a new constitution which provided for a federal Islamic republic with two provinces East and West Pakistan and two official languages Bengali and Urdu went into effect in 1962 The new city of Islamabad N of Rawalpindi which had been interim capital since 1959 became the national capital and Dhaka in East Pakistan became the legislative capital In 1965 Ayub was reelected and a national assembly of 156 members—with East and West Pakistan each allocated 75 seats and six seats reserved for women who had previously been denied the vote under Islamic strictures—was elected A treaty with India governing the use of the waters of the Indus basin was signed 1961 Communal strife was constantly present in the subcontinent—in Jan 1961 several thousand Muslims were massacred in Madhya Pradesh state in India and there were reprisals in Pakistan in 1962 there was further communal conflict in Bengal Diplomatic relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan were severed 1961–63 after some border clashes and continued Afghan agitation supported by the USSR for an independent Pushtunistan A series of conferences on Kashmir was held Dec 1962–Feb 1963 between India and Pakistan following the Chinese assault Oct 1962 on India both nations offered important concessions and solution of the long-standing dispute seemed imminent However Pakistan then signed a bilateral border agreement with China that involved the boundaries of the disputed state and relations with India again became strained Pakistan’s continuing conflict with India over Kashmir erupted in fighting Apr–June 1965 in the Rann of Kachchh region of NW India and SE West Pakistan and in an outbreak of warfare August–September in Kashmir Some improvement in relations between the two countries came in 1966 when President Ayub Khan and Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri of India reached an accord in the Declaration of Tashkent at a meeting sponsored by the USSR Despite the accord however the basic dispute over Kashmir remained unsettled In an effort to gain support in the conflict with India Pakistan somewhat modified its pro-Western policy after 1963 by establishing closer relations with Communist countries especially with China by taking a neutral position on some international issues and by joining the Regional Co-operation for Development Program of SW Asian nations East Pakistan’s long-standing discontent with the federal government was expressed in 1966 by a movement for increased autonomy supported by a general strike Following disastrous riots in late 1968 and early 1969 Ayub resigned and handed the government over to Gen Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan the head of the army who then declared martial law The first direct universal voting since independence was held in Dec 1970 to elect a National Assembly that would draft a new constitution and restore federal parliamentary government Bangladesh and Bhutto The Awami League under Sheik Mujibur Rahman in a campaign for full autonomy in East Pakistan won an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly by taking 153 of the 163 seats allotted to East Pakistan The opening session of the National Assembly scheduled to meet in Dhaka in Mar 1971 was twice postponed by Yahya Khan who then canceled the election results banned the Awami League and imprisoned Sheik Mujib in West Pakistan on charges of treason East Pakistan declared its independence as Bangladesh on Mar 26 1971 but was then placed under martial law and occupied by the Pakistani army which was composed entirely of troops from West Pakistan In the ensuing civil war some 10 million refugees fled to India and hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed India supported Bangladesh and on Dec 3 1971 sent troops into East Pakistan Following a two-week war between Pakistan and India in which fighting also broke out along the India-West Pakistan border Pakistani troops in East Pakistan surrendered Dec 16 and a cease-fire was declared on all fronts Following Pakistan’s defeat Zulfikar Ali Bhutto the deputy prime minister and foreign minister came to power in West Pakistan Sheik Mujib was released from prison and eventually allowed to return to Bangladesh Relations with India remained strained over the issue of the more than 90000 Pakistani soldiers who had surrendered after the civil war and become prisoners of war over Pakistan’s refusal to recognize Bangladesh and over Bangladesh’s declared intention to bring to trial some Pakistani soldiers on war-crimes charges A summit meeting held in Shimla India in July 1972 resulted in an easing of tensions and an agreement to settle differences between the two nations peacefully Demarcation of the truce line in Kashmir was finally completed in Dec 1972 In Aug 1973 India and Pakistan reached an agreement on the release of Pakistani prisoners-of-war and the exchange of hostage populations in India Pakistan and Bangladesh—especially of the Bengalis in Pakistan and the Biharis in Bangladesh Bhutto recognized Bangladesh in Feb 1974 prior to the start of a world Islamic summit conference in Lahore In the mid-1970s Bhutto’s government faced increasing regional tensions among Pakistan’s various ethnic groups After Bhutto’s 1977 election victory was challenged by the opposition widespread riots ensued Recent History Failure to reach a reconciliation prompted the army chief of staff Gen Mohammed Zia ul-Haq to depose Bhutto in a military coup in July and declare martial law Zia was declared president in September and Bhutto convicted of ordering the murder of political opponents was hanged in Apr 1979 In the 1980s Pakistan was dominated by events occurring in neighboring Afghanistan where the Soviet invasion resulted in the flight of over 3 million people to Pakistan Pakistan served as the primary conduit for US aid to the Afghan resistance resulting in large amounts of US aid to Pakistan as well The relationship prompted Zia to return the government to civilian hands and in 1985 he announced the end of martial law but only after amending the constitution so as to greatly strengthen his power as president In 1986 Benazir Bhutto daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his heir as head of the Pakistan People’s party PPP returned to the country In May 1988 Zia dismissed parliament charging it with widespread corruption and announced general elections for November In August Zia died in a mysterious plane crash The PPP won the November elections and Bhutto became prime minister Despite a strong power base Bhutto encountered numerous problems in office including regional ethnic clashes the difficulties of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and long-term tensions caused by Pakistan’s poverty and its uneasy relationship with India In Aug 1990 President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dismissed Bhutto and her cabinet accusing them of misconduct and abuse of power November elections brought to power a coalition government headed by Nawaz Sharif whose administration instituted economic reform policies of privatization and deregulation in an effort to stimulate growth In 1991 the parliament passed legislation incorporating Islamic law sharia into the legal code When Sharif moved to reduce presidential power he was dismissed 1993 by President Ishaq Khan the ensuing crisis was resolved with the resignations of both men Bhutto’s party won the most seats in new elections later in 1993 and she once again became prime minister heading a coalition government Farooq Leghari a Bhutto ally was elected president In 1995 some three dozen military officers were arrested reportedly for plotting an Islamic revolution in Pakistan In 1996 Bhutto was again dismissed on charges of corruption by President Leghari In 1997 Leghari established a Council for Defense and National Security which gave a key role in political decision-making to the heads of the armed forces Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League PML-N won a huge majority in the 1997 elections and he once again became prime minister Sharif soon moved to enact legislation curbing the president’s power to dismiss elected governments and to appoint armed forces chiefs the supreme court blocked these moves and reinstated a corruption inquiry against Sharif In an apparent victory for Sharif President Leghari resigned in Dec 1997 and the chief justice of the supreme court was dismissed Mohammad Rafiq Tarar became president in 1998 Following the detonation of underground nuclear devices by India in May 1998 Pakistan carried out its own series of nuclear tests the United States imposed economic sanctions against both countries In the summer of 1999 conflict with India over Kashmir erupted again with Pakistani-backed troops withdrawing from Indian-held territory after several weeks of fighting In Oct 1999 a bloodless military coup led by Gen Pervez Musharraf ousted Sharif suspended the constitution and declared martial law Sharif was charged with treason and in Apr 2000 he was convicted of hijacking an airliner as a result of issuing orders to deny permission to land to the plane that Musharraf had been on prior to the 1999 coup and was sentenced to life in prison Sharif subsequently was also convicted on corruption charges and later exiled Dec 2000 to Saudi Arabia In June 2001 Musharraf appointed himself president A summit in July with Prime Minister Vajpayee of India proved unfruitful and ended on a bitter note Following the September terrorist attacks on the United States that were linked to Osama bin Laden the United States ended its sanctions on Pakistan and sought its help in securing bin Laden from the Taliban government of Afghanistan but Pakistan proved unable to influence the Taliban who had received support from Pakistan since the mid-1990s Pakistan permitted US planes to cross its airspace and US forces to be based there during the subsequent military action against Afghanistan These moves provoked sometimes violent anti-US demonstrations erupted in Pakistani cities particularly in border areas where many Afghan refugees and Pathans live In response the government cracked down on the more militant Islamic fundamentalist groups After terror attacks by Pakistani-based guerrillas on Indian government buildings in late 2001 India threatened to go to war with Pakistan unless all guerrilla attacks were ended As Pakistan moved haltingly to suppress such groups the crisis escalated but in Jan 2002 Musharraf attacked religious extremism and its affect on Pakistani society and stated that no group engaging in terrorism would be tolerated A crackdown on such groups was complicated by strong popular Pakistani support for guerrillas fighting Indian rule in Kashmir but many Pakistanis also objected to the Islamic fundamentalism espoused by many of the guerrillas and their supporters In mid-2002 Pakistan’s army established garrisons in a number of tribal areas for the first time since independence Also in January Musharraf announced plans for national and provincial legislative elections in Oct 2002 while indicating that he intended to remain in office In April he called for a referendum on extending his rule for five more years Most national political parties called for a boycott of the referendum and turnout appeared low in many locations Musharraf claimed a 50 turnout with a 98 yes vote In August he imposed 29 constitutional amendments designed to make his rule impervious to political opposition in parliament Meanwhile tensions with India again reached the brink of war in May as a result of escalating attacks by Muslim militants in India Concern that a conflict might evolve into nuclear warfare prompted international mediation and the crisis eased after Pakistan stopped state-sponsored guerrilla infilitration across the line of control in Kashmir The fighting in Afghanistan violence and political turmoil in Pakistan and tension with India hurt the Pakistani economy particularly the export textile and apparel industries Parliamentary elections in Oct 2002 resulted in a setback for Musharraf as the Pakistan Muslim League–Quaid PML-Q renamed the Pakistan Muslim League PML in 2004 which supported him placed second in terms of the seats it won Bhutto’s PPP placed first and a generally anti-American Islamic fundamentalist coalition was a strong third and also won control of the North-West Frontier Province now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa where the legislature subsequently approved June 2003 the establishment of Islamic law Zafarullah Khan Jamali the PML-Q leader was narrowly elected Pakistan’s prime minister Tensions with India further eased in 2003 and midway through the year diplomatic relations were restored In Dec 2003 two attempts were made to assassinate Musharraf but both failed That same month he sealed an agreement with the Islamic parties to pass a modified version of the constitutional amendments he had imposed in Aug 2002 He accepted some limitations on his powers and he agreed to give up his post as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Other opposition parties denounced the deal Following revelations in the news media concerning the transfer of Pakistani nuclear technology to Iran Libya and North Korea Abdul Qadeer Khan in Feb 2004 admitted that he overseen such transfers from the late 1980s until 2000 The Pakistani government said that Khan who had led its nuclear weapons program for a quarter century had sold the technology for personal gain but missiles parts were transferred at the same time from North Korea to Pakistan leading international arms experts and others to believe that the government was at the very least aware of the transfers Khan revered by many Pakistanis as the father of the Islamic bomb was pardoned by President Musharraf In Mar 2004 Pakistan’s military began operations against foreign Islamic militants in South Waziristan but local militants who regarded the attacks as a breach of local autonomy joined in fighting against government forces The fighting continued into 2005 when operations were also begun in North Waziristan Agreements with tribal leaders in both regions ended military operations in Waziristan in late 2006 Fighting also occurred in Baluchistan where local tribes demanding a greater share in the provinces mineral wealth and an end of the stationing of military forces there mounted a series of attacks that continued into 2006 Meanwhile in Apr 2004 a bill was passed creating a national security council consisting of military and civilian leaders to advise the government on matters of national interest Creation of the council gave the military an institutionalized voice in national affairs Prime Minister Jamali resigned and the cabinet was dissolved in June after Jamali lost the support of the president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain a close political ally of Musharraf became interim prime minister until Shaukat Aziz the finance minister in the outgoing cabinet and Musharraf’s choice to succeed Jamali was elected to the national assembly and took office Aug 2004 In Oct 2004 the governing coalition passed legislation permitting Musharraf to remain chairman of the joint chiefs of staff despite the president’s earlier pledge to resign from the post and at the end of the year Musharraf announced he would not resign In Apr 2005 Musharraf visited India and the two nations agreed to increase cross-border transport links including in Kashmir and to work to improve trade between them Passage July 2005 by the North-West Frontier Province now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government of a law calling for Islamic moral policing was challenged by the national government and the supreme court declared the legislation unconstitutional A similar but somewhat weaker bill was passed in 2006 and again challenged An earthquake in Oct 2005 caused widespread devastation in N Pakistan particularly in Kashmir killed more than 73000 and injured nearly as many and left an estimated 3 million homeless Many victims in remote areas were slow to receive aid when those areas became practically inaccessible as a result of damage to roads combined with inadequate alternative transportation In 2006 relations with Afghanistan became increasingly strained as Afghan officials accused Pakistan of allowing the Taliban and Al Qaeda to use bordering areas of Pakistan particularly Baluchistan around Quetta as safe havens and to send forces and weapons across border into Afghanistan After a series of bomb attacks July 2006 in Mumbai India that India asserted were linked to Pakistani security forces peace talks were suspended between the two nations but they resumed in late 2006 and an agreement designed to prevent an accidental nuclear war between India and Pakistan was signed in Feb 2007 In Mar 2007 Musharraf suspended Pakistan’s chief justice for misuse of authority the justice had conducted investigations into human rights abuses by Pakistan’s security forces and was regarded as independent of the government While the chief justice challenged the move in the courts Pakistani lawyers and judges denounced the move as unconstitutional and they and opposition parties mounted demonstrations in support fo the chief justice believing that the president was attempting to remove him as a prelude to extending his presidency beyond the end of 2007 A planned rally in Karachi in support of the chief justice led to two days of violence in May in which those who died were largely opposition activists the violence provoked additional opposition demonstrations and strikes In July the supreme court ruled that the chief justice’s suspension was illegal and that he should be reinstated In June 2007 there was devastating flooding in Baluchistan after a cyclone struck the coast some 2 million were affected by the floodwaters In July Pakistani security forces stormed an Islamabad mosque that had become a focus for Islamic militants more than 70 persons died Militants responded with a series of bombings and other attacks in the following weeks and fighting again broke out in Waziristan In September bin Laden called for jihad against the Musharraf government and the following month the government sent troops against militants in the Swat valley in the North-West Frontier Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Despite the government’s actions in Swat the Pakistani Pashtun militants who became loosely allied as the Taliban Movement of Pakistan in late 2007 became more powerful beginning in 2008 Meanwhile with parliamentary elections due by Jan 2008 former prime ministers Sharif and Bhutto made plans to return from exile Sharif who returned in September was immediately deported but after an October court ruling he was allowed to return in November Following negotiations with the government Bhutto returned in October surviving an attempted assassination the day of her return that killed more than 130 persons Musharraf was reelected president the same month but the official declaration of the result was postponed until after the supreme court ruled on whether he was permitted to run while remaining army chief Before the court could issue its ruling Musharraf declared emergency rule suspended the constitution and dismissed the members of the court who seemed likely to rule against him The challenges against his reelection were then dismissed and later in the month Musharraf resigned as army chief In December emergency rule was ended late in the month Bhutto was assassinated possibly by Islamists after a campaign rally A UN report released in 2010 said that security had been inadequate and that the investigation into her murder had been bungled by the police and hindered by Pakistan’s secret intelligence agencies Several days of unrest followed her death and the government postponed the January elections to Feb 2008 Bhutto’s PPP and Sharif’s PML-N won the largest blocs of seats in the election and agreed to form a coalition Yousaf Raza Gilani of the PPP became prime minister in March The election was a striking setback for Musharraf and also for the Islamist parties In May however the PML-N withdrew from the government over a disagreement concerning the restoration of powers to the judiciary the PPP wanted some limitations imposed while the PML-N supported fully restoring judicial powers The PML-N briefly returned to the government in August Relations were further strained with Afghanistan in July 2008 when Afghanistan’s President Karzai accused Pakistani agents of being behind a bomb attack against the Indian embassy in Kabul In Aug 2008 the governing coalition announced that it planned to begin impeachment proceedings against Mushurraf the move was seen as driven especially by Sharif’s PML-N As preparations for the impeachment proceedings advanced Musharraf announced his resignation as president The following month Bhutto’s husband Asif Ali Zardari was elected president The new government was faced with increased militant Islamist threats—including festering conflicts with militants fighting resumed in Swat in July intensified in Bajaur in the Tribal Areas in August and by November had spread to Mohmand also in the Tribal Areas an assassination attempt against the prime minister and a suicide bomb attack on an Islamabad hotel Sept 2008 that resulted in many casualties—and a financial meltdown that left the country close to defaulting on its considerable debt September also saw increased tensions between Pakistani forces and US forces in Afghanistan after US and Afghan forces conducted a ground raid against Islamists in Pakistan and Pakistan protested against ongoing US missile strikes against militant targets in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas The Nov 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai India by Islamists of Pakistani origin led to Indian demands that Pakistan take action against those that India said were linked to the terrorism and to increased Indo-Pakistani tensions Pakistan later Feb 2009 acknowledged that the attack had been launched from Pakistan and said it had arrested a number of persons connected to the attack In 2010 however India accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of having assisted in the planning of the attacks Also in Nov 2008 the International Monetary Fund approved a 76 billion loan package to Pakistan enabling the country to avoid defaulting on its bond payments In Feb 2009 the government agreed to the establishment of Islamic law in Swat in exchange for a permanent cease-fire Militants refused however to lay down their weapons and some moved in subsequent weeks into neighboring districts in North West Frontier Prov where they were opposed by government forces The Swat-based militants also denounced the Pakistani legal system as un-Islamic Islamic militants also mounted bombings in a number of major Pakistani cities in early 2009 In Mar 2009 growing demonstrations led Zardari to agree to restore the chief justice to office the government also subsequently announced it would appeal the banning of Sharif and his brother from politics The supreme court overturned the ban in May and in July it ruled that Musharraf’s emergency rule had been unconstitutional and illegal In April the government received pledges of 52 billion in foreign aid over two years to help finance social programs As government forces moved to restore control over areas near Swat the situation in Swat deteriorated and in May the military mounted a major offensive against the militants there In subsequent weeks Islamic militants in response mounted a number of suicide bomb attacks in Pakistani cities and fighting also intensified in Waziristan and other areas Some 2 million people were displaced by the fighting The fighting in Swat was declared largely over by late July and by September four fifths of the residents had returned to Swat Militant attacks continued in Pakistani cities however and in Oct 2009 the military launched a major offensive against militants based in South Waziristan after some two weeks of fighting militants largely pulled back ceding most of their main bases to the military by mid-November In Mar 2010 an offensive was launched in Orakzai agency in the Tribal Areas against militants believed to have fled there from South Waziristan some 200000 people were displaced by the fighting Fighting continued also in Bajaur and other parts of the Tribal Areas In Dec 2009 the supreme court ruled illegal a 2007 Musharraf decree that had declared an amnesty on corruption cases Benazir Bhutto and the PPP had sought the amnesty in order to end prosecutions begun under Prime Minister Sharif that they asserted were politically motivated but some 8000 government officials politicians and others were ultimately absolved by the decree The court also called for any case that was derailed by the decree to be reopened Pakistan and India resumed talks in Feb 2010 it was the first meeting since the 2008 Mumbai attacks and agreed a year later to restart formal peace talks In Apr 2010 Pakistan adopted constitutional changes that reduced the powers of the president and increased those of the prime minister and parliament making the president a largely ceremonial head of state the powers of the provinces were also increased and the North-West Frontier Province was renamed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Beginning in late July the monsoon season resulted in devastating floods of unprecedented proportions along the Indus and its tributaries that impacted to a greater or lesser degree all of the country’s provinces and submerged roughly one fifth of its land area Some 20 million people the vast majority of them farmers were affected by the floods which continued in some areas through September Some 1800 died and the damage was estimated at 97 billion Zadari who left the country during the crisis was increasingly unpopular as a result and the scale of the disaster overwhelmed the government’s ability to respond Pakistan’s government which was in financial difficulties before the floods was faced with estimated rebuilding and recovery costs of 30 billion By December the financial difficulties threatened the government when the Muttahida Qaumi Movement MQM withdrew from the governing coalition over an impending fuel price increase Prime Minister Gilani was forced to roll back the increase in early January in order to regain MQM’s support and a sales tax overhaul—a condition imposed by the IMF for the release of additional loans—was postponed The first week of January also saw the assassination of the governor of Punjab because of his support for reforms to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws in March the minorities minister was similarly killed In May 2011 Osama bin Laden who was in hiding in Abbottabad Pakistan was killed there by US commandos leading to tense relations between Pakistan and the United States in July the US government announced significant cuts in US aid to Pakistan In Sept 2011 severe monsoon flooding again hit the country mainly in Sind Relations with the United States were further strained in November after US forces under unclear circumstances during nighttime operations launched deadly air attacks on Pakistani forces by the Afghanistan border In early 2012 the Pakistani supreme court sought to force the prime minister to ask Swiss officials to reopen a corruption case against President Zadari the case was among those affected by the 2007 amnesty that the court overturned in 2009 Prime Minister Gilani refused arguing that the president had immunity leading the court to convict Gilani of contempt in Apr 2012 The court then disqualified Gilani as a member of parliament and prime minister in June Raja Pervez Ashraf the minister for water and power and a PPP member subsequently succeeded Gilani as prime minister Ashraf subsequently also refused to ask the Swiss to reopen the Zadari corruption case Ashraf’s arrest on corruption charges relating to his previous post was ordered by the supreme court in Jan 2013 but anticorruption officials called the charges questionable and refused to arrest him Early 2013 was marked by deadly bombings by Sunni extremists that targeted Shiites in Quetta In Mar 2013 parliament was dissolved in anticipation of the May elections it was the first time that the Pakistani legislature had completed a full term Mir Hazar Khan Khoso a retired senior judge became interim prime minister Also in March Musharraf returned to the country from his self-imposed exile abroad with the intention of running for a parliamentary seat He was disqualified from running however and arrested on charges related to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto he later was charged with other crimes including treason The PML-N won a sizable plurality in the May elections and with the support of some independent members of parliament Nawaz Sharif became prime minister for the third time in June In July Mamnoon Hussain a political ally of Sharif was elected to succeed Zardari as president In May 2014 the government attacked militants in North Waziristan and launched a larger offensive in June that continued into 2016 an estimated 15 million people were displaced by the fighting The Pakistan Taliban which had ended a truce several weeks prior to the May attack and split into factions favoring and opposed to a peace agreement with the government launched its own attacks most notably against Karachi’s airport in June and against a Peshawar school in which more than 130 children were killed in December Attacks diminished greatly in 2015 after army successes in its campaign but 2016 saw several especially deadly attacks by a number of groups including a suicide bombing in Lahore in March that targeted Christians and an attack in in Quetta in October that targeted police cadets Beginning in Aug 2014 supporters of opposition politician Imran Khan and cleric Tahirul Qadri mounted a series of protests against Sharif’s government that at times involved tens of thousands the protests continued into October but failed to force the prime minister’s resignation In Dec 2015 the Pakistani and Indian prime ministers met in what was seen as a potential warming of relations but expections were tempered in Jan 2016 after Kashmiri separatists widely regarded as sponsored by Pakistan’s intelligence agency attacked an Indian air force base Tensions further increased after a separatist attack against an army base in Kashmir in Sept 2016 and continued into 2018 with recurring exchanges of fire between Pakistan and Indian forces in Kashmir Revelations 2016 arising from the publication of the Panama Papers led to an investigation overseen by the supreme court into Prime Minister Sharif’s family’s wealth and possible corruption In July 2017 the supreme court disqualified him from public office and he and his government resigned Shahid Khaqan Abbasi an ally of Sharif and the petroleum minister succeeded him as prime minister Bibliography See K B Sayeed Pakistan: The Formative Phase 1857–1948 2d ed 1968 W N Brown The United States and India Pakistan Bangladesh 3d ed 1972 S M Burke Pakistan’s 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