The Gilani ministry began its operation into office on 31 March 2008 after
Yousaf Raza Gillani
Yusuf Raza Gilani (Urdu: ; born 9 June 1952), is a Pakistani politician who served as 18th Prime Minister of Pakistan from 25 March 2008, until his retroactive disqualification and ouster by the Supreme Court of Pakistan on 26 April 2012. He ...
was elected as
Prime minister of
Pakistan by the
National Assembly on 25 March 2008. The swearing-in of the cabinet was delayed for a few days until March 31 because of differences arising amongst the coalition partners.
The
leftist PPP gained substantial seats in the
Parliament in the
general elections
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held in 2008 but lacked enough seats to form a government with a
simple majority.
Initially with the
coalition government, the
conservative
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PML-N quickly departed when its leader,
Nawaz Sharif (current
Prime Minister), decided to lead the efforts on
impeaching the former
President
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*President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
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Pervez Musharraf as well as
restoring the
judiciary, of which, the
PML(N) played a centralized role.
Prime Minister Gillani decided to centralize the power by forming a more dense
left-wing alliance that consisted of minor left parties: the
ANP,
MQM MQM may refer to:
* Muttahida Qaumi Movement – London (MQM)
* Muttahida Qaumi Movement – Pakistan
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,
JUI(F). As
Prime Minister,
Gillani escalated the
military operations
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to keep pressure on
Taliban and as well on the
Baloch separatist
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s.
Gillani greatly relaxed the
taxation
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that effected the annual
GDP growth and initiated the
welfare programme. Responding to global
recession,
Gillani implemented the
nationalization of conglomerates and tightly controlled the
means of production
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of the industries.
Relations with
Bangladesh
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,
Afghanistan
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, and
India worsen in 2008–12 as well criticism from the
United States widened. In 2011, the
U.S.
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initiated a
secret operation to hunt down the
Osama Bin Laden without the knowledge of Prime Minister
Gillani.
Prime Minister
Gillani's ministry witnessed the sharp rise in nationwide
violence, increased
corruption
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in
nationalized
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industries,
social tension
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, political
scandals
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and assassinations. After months of delaying the
Supreme Court's recommendations to investigate the
corruption cases against
Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...
,
Gillani was ousted from the office; nonetheless, his ministry continued to be in effect by
his successor.
Overall ratings remains negative on
Gillani as his tenure has been described as a "clash of state institutions, involving the
executive, the
armed forces
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and the
judiciary."
Under his ministry, Gillani was held responsible for the prolonged "
Era of Stagflation", in which fundamental
economic problems were ignored. In 2013, there was an increase in criticism of the Gillanian years, even after the
NRO squabble was eventually resolved by
his successor.
Gillani cabinet
Cabinet
At swearing-in ceremony, the
PML(N) members declined to take oath under
President
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General
Pervez Musharraf, who they considered an illegitimate head of state. The first cabinet was short-lived lasting only 2 weeks; the list of federal ministers short-listed for the cabinet included two women members of the lower house and three members of the
senate.
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