The Mazari caretaker ministry under Balakh Sher Mazari as the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan was sworn into office after the Nawaz government was overthrown on 19 April 1993 by president Ghulam Ishaq Khan. Mazari's tenure as caretaker prime minister ended abruptly on 26 May 1993 when the Supreme Court revoked the presidential order and reinstated Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister.[1]
Mazari caretaker ministry | |
|---|---|
 32nd Cabinet of Pakistan | |
| Incumbent | |
| Date formed | 19 April 1993 |
| People and organisations | |
| Head of state | Ghulam Ishaq Khan |
| Head of government | Balakh Sher Mazari |
| Status in legislature | Caretaker government |
| History | |
| Predecessor | First Sharif I |
| Successor | First Sharif II |
Government formation
editOn 18 April 1993, president Ghulam Ishaq Khan exercised his extra-constitutional presidential powers, instituted to him through the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, to resolve the power struggle in Pakistan and dismissed the government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif. After dissolving both, the national and the provincial assemblies, Khan appointed Mazari as the caretaker prime minister.[2] The same day, a caretaker cabinet was also sworn into the house.
This was the second time that president Khan had invoked Article 58-2b of the Eighth Amendment to bring down an elected head of government. The charges of corruption and economic mismanagement that Khan levelled against Nawaz Sharif were almost entirely identical to those he had earlier brought against Benazir Bhutto in 1990.
Cabinet
edit1993
editA caretaker cabinet of 22 ministers took an oath on 18 April 1993 under caretaker prime minister Balakh Sher Mazari and the president Ghulam Ishaq Khan.[3] The Mazari caretaker cabinet was "[Pakistan's] most short-lived caretaker cabinet".[4]
References
edit- ^ Blood, Peter R. (1 December 1996). Pakistan: A Country Study. DIANE Publishing. pp. 237–. ISBN 9780788136313. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
- ^ "Balakh Sher Mazari Becomes Caretaker Prime Minister". Story of Pakistan. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^ a b Iqbal, Muhammad Mohsin (13 March 2013). "Referees of the Power Game" (Blog post). Retrieved 12 July 2014.
- ^ Asghar, Raja (18 October 1999). "Musharraf offers a caretaker government with a difference". Rediff. Islamabad. Retrieved 12 July 2014.