Mir Balakh Sher Mazari;Care Taker Prime Minister

In 1993 a protracted power struggle between Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Ghulam Ishaq Khan played out as Pakistan's two leading politicians maneuvered each other out of power. This period of behind-the-scenes struggle was described by a Pakistani daily as a "Silent Revolution" and was watched with some concern by the international community, which feared that Pakistan could once again fall under military rule as the resignation of both The President and Prime Minister were asked by the Chief of Army Staff General Wahid Kakar only 2 months after the Supreme Court returned Nawaz Sharif to Premiership of the country. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Nawaz Sharif (born December 25, 1949) was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms. ... Ghulam Ishaq Khan (b. ... Gen. ...

On April 18, 1993, the power struggle seemed to be resolved when President Ishaq Khan, exercising the extraordinary constitutional powers afforded the president by the Eighth Amendment, dismissed the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. For the second time, Ghulam Ishaq Khan had invoked the Eighth Amendment to bring down an elected government. The charges of corruption and mismanagement of the economy that he leveled against Nawaz Sharif were almost identical to those he had earlier brought against Benazir Bhutto in 1990. President Ishaq Khan appointed Balakh Sher Mazari as Care Taker Prime Minister for 90 days, a mandatory period to setup a framework for next elections. April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... The Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan was passed in 1985. ... Nawaz Sharif (born December 25, 1949) was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms. ... Ghulam Ishaq Khan (b. ... Benazir Bhutto; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (born June 21, 1953) became the first woman to lead a Muslim country in modern times when she was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1988, only to be deposed 20 months later by the President of... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In His short lived career as PM his Foreign Policy remained his strong point and probably the only efficient act on his part as Prime Minister was to attend the OIC. OIC may stand for: Organization of the Islamic Conference Office of Independent Council Office of Internal Communications Office of the Information Commissioner In Internet slang Oh, I see - also popular, in same usage, as comedic element from a scene in Disneys animated movie version of Tarzan. ...

Concerning the struggle of the people of Jammu and Kashmir the Prime Minister stated that they had been denied their right to self-determination, and called on the OIC to adopt resolute steps to condemn Indian atrocities and violations of human rights in Jammu and Kashmir, and to condemn its continued occupation of that territory. He pointed out that the unending repression had failed to break the will of the Kashmiri people for liberation from India's illegal occupation. The dark-brown region represents the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir is the northern-most province of the Republic of India, with Srinagar as its capital and Jammu as its winter-capital. ...

On the question of Palestine,Mr. Mazari stated that Israel must fully implement resolutions 242 and 338 of the U.N. Security Council and that all the Palestinian people be allowed to return to their homeland. Palestine (Latin: Syria Palæstina; Hebrew: פלשתינה Palestina, ארץ־ישראל Eretz Yisrael; Arabic: فلسطين Filasṭīn) is the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the banks of the Jordan River, plus various adjoining lands to the east. ... A session of the Security Council in progress The United Nations Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations. ...

On the genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina,Mr. Mazari stated that Pakistan had sponsored a Security Council resolution imposing additional sanctions on Serbia. He sincerely hoped that the Conference would respond generously to Bosnia-Herzegovina's needs. Bosnia and Herzegovina (also variously written Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bosnia-Hercegovina) is a mountainous country in the western Balkans. ...

Mr. Mazari also called on the OIC to strongly condemn Armenia's attack on Azerbaijan and called for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Azerbaijan and the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijani: Dağlıq Qarabağ or Yuxarı Qarabağ, literally mountainous black garden or upper black garden; Russian: Нагорный Карабах, translit. ...

On the issue of Cyprus, the Prime Minister stated that Pakistan supported a bizonal and bicommunal federal structure based on the equality of the Turkish and Greek communities.

Mr. Mazari also called on the Islamic world to support the people of Afghanistan in this period of political transition.

On the issue of terrorism,Mr. Mazari stated that Pakistan is committed to combating international terrorism, and called on the OIC to condemn strongly all forms of terrorism. The term terrorism is controversial and has many definitions, none of which are universally accepted. ...

The Prime Minister of Pakistan also called on the OIC to protect the rights and welfare of Muslim minorities.He also stated that many OIC states have a stake in combatting racism and xenophobia in Europe, that is affecting Muslims living there. OIC may stand for: Organization of the Islamic Conference Office of Independent Council Office of Internal Communications Office of the Information Commissioner In Internet slang Oh, I see - also popular, in same usage, as comedic element from a scene in Disneys animated movie version of Tarzan. ... Xenophobia denotes a phobic attitude towards strangers or of the unknown and comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning foreigner, stranger, and φόβος (phobos), meaning fear. The term is typically used to describe fear or dislike of foreigners, but racism in general is sometimes described as a form of xenophobia. ... World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...

On May 26, 1993, the Supreme Court voted that Ishaq Khan's dissolution of the National Assembly and his dismissal of the prime minister were unconstitutional. The Supreme Court's action was a sharp rebuke of Ishaq Khan's heavy-handed exercise of presidential powers and was widely hailed as a victory for the advocates of democratization. Yet, although the Supreme Court was able to reinstate the Nawaz Sharif government, the status quo ante was not restored, and the struggle between the president and the prime minister continued unabated, making the pursuit of regular government workings impossible. The supreme court in some countries, provinces, and states, is the highest court in that jurisdiction and functions as a court of last resort whose rulings cannot be appealed. ... The National Assembly is the name of either a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries. ...

Mazari-Bugti dispute

This started over the claim of Bugti tribe on the sand and gravel situated in the Mazari area which were to be used in the construction of 110-kilometre-long piece of Indus Highway passing through the Mazari area as well. Bugti, a Baluch tribe of Rind (Arab) origin, numbering about 15,500, who occupy the hills to the east of the Sind-Peshin railway, between Jacobabad and Sibi, with the Marris (a cognate tribe) to the north of them. ...

Balakh Sher Mazari has called on the Government repeatedly for the demarcation of the Punjab-Balochistan border, a meeting was held in Kashmore, Sindh, with the then federal petroleum minister Anwar Saifullah in the chair in early 1990s. Punjab chief secretary Hafeez Akhtar Randhawa also attended the meeting as provincial home secretary. The meeting, however, remained inconclusive.

With the start of work on Indus Highway in 1993 in the area, Turkish and Japanese contractors started paying royalty to the Mazaris for sand and gravel which frustrated the Bugtis and their associates in the Mazari Tribe. The Bugtis started armed assaults in the Punjab. Patterns in the sand Sand is an example of a class of materials called granular matter. ... Gravel Gravel is rock that is of a certain size range. ...

Balakh Sher Mazari complained that so far 37 people, including a senior police official, had been killed in the Bugtis attacks and more than 87 people had either injured or kidnapped since 1994. Besides, around 20 tractors and several other vehicles had also been snatched from the Mazaris and the people of other clans by the Bugtis.

He said on the one hand the Rajanpur police had been badly failed to check Bugti intruders in the Punjab, while on the other they had started picking up Mazari notables without giving any reason.

Mr Mazari alleged that the arrests of Mazaris were in fact politically-motivated at the behest of MNA Nasrullah Dareshak and Punjab Assembly deputy speaker Shaukat Mazari.

The Mazari chief regretted that the Balochistan government was patronizing the Bugtis but the Punjab government was paying no attention to their requests on the grounds that it was infighting between the Baloch tribes. The province of Balochistan (or Baluchistan) of Pakistan contains roughly the portion of Balochistan that falls within the borders of present-day Pakistan. ... Bugti, a Baluch tribe of Rind (Arab) origin, numbering about 15,500, who occupy the hills to the east of the Sind-Peshin railway, between Jacobabad and Sibi, with the Marris (a cognate tribe) to the north of them. ...

Rajanpur District

The district has three tehsils, Rajanpur, Jampur and Rohjhan. The district also houses Fazilpur, Kot Mithan, Omarkot, Murghai, Miranpur, Shahmali, Mominpur, Hajipur, Lalgarh, Noorpur, Bokhara, Dajal, Harrand, Tibi Lundan and Lundi Saidan.

The Mazari tribe is largest in the area followed by the Dareshaks. The Legharis of Choti have a strong clout in the district, and have succeeded in winning the district nazim slot in Rajanpur recently in 2003. Apart from this, Khosas, Khetrans, Lunds, Gorchanis, Qaiseranis and Buzdars are also residing in the district. The settlers form around 15-20 % of the total population with Rajputs, Arains and Jats in greater proportion. The settlers are generally the supporters of the PPP, PML-N and the rightwing parties. Currently, Sardar Balakh Sher Mazari is trying to muster up the settlers' support, besides his own and Gorchanis'. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), also known as progressive multifocal leukoencephalitis, is a rare and usually fatal disorder that is characterized by progressive damage (-pathy) or inflammation (-itis) of the white matter (leuko-) of the brain (-encephalo-) at multiple locations (multifocal). ...

Seraiki Belt

For sometime now he has been advocating that Seraiki areas did not get water as it was promised to them at the time of the construction of Chashma Barrage, CJ and TP link canals and other mega water projects in Punjab on the pretext that there was no water in the system. He recently posed questions to the government if there was no water for Seraiki areas, how come the Greater Thal Canal was being constructed now? He claims that the GTC was being constructed because retired army officers, higher civilian bureaucrats and some notables have been allotted land in its command area. That will cause another influx into the Seraiki areas. Alternate use: The Thals, an alien race from the series Doctor Who Thal is a small village in Austria, near the city of Graz. ...

Nawaz Sharif (born December 25, 1949) was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms. ... The Prime Minister of Pakistan is the Head of Government of Pakistan. ... Nawaz Sharif (born December 25, 1949) was twice elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, serving two non-consecutive terms. ...

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• Chronicles Of Pakistan