Pakistan

In addition, political parties have been handicapped by regional and ethnic factors that have limited their national appeal and have also been torn by personal and class rivalries (Pakistan on Web by Mazhar). Further, political parties, with few exceptions, have been founded as vehicles for one person or a few individuals, or to achieve specifically defined goals. use they have suffered long periods of repression.

For more than half the time since its founding, Pakistan has experienced military rule. As of the mid-1990s, no government had completed its term of office since the lifting of martial law in 1985. In its experience with democracy, Pakistan compared well with other constitutionally Islamic states.

Pakistan is a constitutionally Islamic country of South Asia, founded in 1947, and a test case for Islamic democracy. When, in 1993, the same president again attempted to remove a government, Pakistan’s Supreme Court overturned his action (Pakistan on Web by Mazhar). In 1990, a popularly chosen prime minister was dismissed, and a president who had been chosen indirectly dissolved the federal legislature. When these individuals abandon their parties or after party goals have been met, many organizations have lost their interest and have lacked the ability to carry on. A parliamentary vote in 1970 was the first conducted under suffrage, and the election of 1988 was the first in which a transfer of power occurred smoothly, without military interference. But when measured by the extent of popular participation, the effectiveness of representative institutions, and commitment to a constitutional order, democratic rule in Pakistan has been inconsistent and shallow (Banks, et.