Author(s): Robert LaPorte, Jr.
What many observers of Pakistan felt was imminent in
December 1995 took eleven months to occur. On November 5, 1996, Presi-
dent Farooq Leghari issued a Dissolution Order that dismissed the govern-
ment of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, following months of domestic
turmoil and dismal performance of the economy. In the course of 1996, the
Bhutto government had succeeded in alienating the business community, the
judiciary, the military, the president, the international assistance community
(the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in particular), and
given the lack of protests against the dismissal, the Pakistani public-at-large.
The caretaker government appointed by President Leghari has a deadline of
February 3, 1997 (when Leghari announced that elections would be held) to
clean up what has become the “Augean stables” of Pakistani politics.
February 1997
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