List of Chief Ministers in Pakistan

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A Chief Minister in Pakistan is the elected Head of Government of one of Pakistan's
four Provinces or the two non-provincial sub-national territories that have assemblies. A Chief
Minister is elected through elections and the majority party is invited to elect a leader, whose tenure
lasts for five years.
Current Chief Ministers of Pakistan
Province Name Took Office Party List Website
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa
Pervaiz
Khatak
31 May
2013
Pakistan
Tehreek-e-
Insaf
Chief Minister of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa
Government
Balochistan
Abdul Malik
Baloch
07 June
2013
National Party
(Pakistan)
Chief Minister of
Balochistan
Balochistan
Government
Sindh
Qaim Ali
Shah
30 May
2013
Pakistan
People's Party
Chief Minister of Sindh Sindh Government
Punjab
Shahbaz
Sharif
06 June
2013
Pakistan
Muslim League
(N)
Chief Minister of Punjab Punjab Government
Gilgit-Baltistan
Syed Mehdi
Shah
12
December
2009
Pakistan
Peoples Party
Chief Minister of Gilgit-
Baltistan
Gilgit-Baltistan
Government
Azad Jammu and
Kashmir
Chaudhry
Abdul Majid
26 July 2011
Pakistan
Peoples Party
List of Prime Minister of
Azad Jammu and
Kashmir
AJ&K Government





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Afghan presidential election, 2014


2009 April 5, 2014 2019




Nominee Abdullah Abdullah Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai Zalmai Rassoul
Party National Coalition of
Afghanistan
Independent Independent
Running mate Mohammad Khan
Mohammad Mohaqiq
Abdul Rashid Dostum
Sarwar Danish
Ahmad Zia Massoud
Habiba Sarobi


Incumbent President

Hamid Karzai
Independent


Afghanistan

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V
T
E
Presidential elections were held inAfghanistan on 5 April 2014.
[1]
IncumbentPresident Hamid
Karzai was not eligible to run due to term limits. The registration period for presidential nominations
was open from 16 September 2013 until 6 October 2013.
[2]
A total of 27 candidates were confirmed
to be running for office.
[3]
However, on 22 October Afghanistans Independent Election
Commission disqualified 16 of the candidates, leaving only 11 in the race.
[4]
By April 2014 three
candidates gave up the race and decided to support some of the eight remaining candidates.
Opinion polls show Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani as the front-runners.
[5]

The election will be the first time in Afghanistan's history that power will be democratically
transferred.
[6][7][8][9]

Contents
[hide]
1 Procedure
2 Candidates
o 2.1 Declined to run
3 Campaign
o 3.1 Debates
3.1.1 First Debate
3.1.2 Second Debate
3.1.3 Third Debate
4 Opinion polls
5 Partial Preliminary results
6 Security
7 References
8 External links
Procedure[edit]
On 17 July 2013, the Parliament of Afghanistan passed a pair of election laws considered crucial to
holding the election on time; President Karzai signed one and was expected to sign the other
quickly. The first law to be signed lays out the composition and rules for Afghanistans election
commission and a separate commission to adjudicate complaints about voter fraud and other
irregularities. The other one governs how the vote will be held.
[10]

Pakistan sealed its border with Afghanistan during the electoral period in order to reduce the
chances of cross-border attacks.
[11]

There have been reports of polling sites running out of ballot papers due to a high turnout.
[12]

Candidates[edit]
A total of 27 candidates were confirmed to have submitted their nominations by Afghanistan's
Independent Election Commission on 6 October 2013, the closing day of the nomination period.
[3][13]

Abdullah Abdullah, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, leader of National Coalition of Afghanistan,
presidential candidate in 2009
[14]

Dil Agha Kohdamani
[15]

Ishaq Gailani
[15]

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, former Minister of Finance
[16]

Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai
[17]

Qutbuddin Hilal
[15]

Quayum Karzai, brother of current President Hamid Karzai, businessman and politician
[3]

Fazil Karim Najmi
[18]

Zalmai Rassoul, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
[2]

Abdul Rasul Sayyaf
[18]

Bismillah Sher, leader of the Wefaq Millie Party
[18]

Abdul Rahim Wardak, former Minister of Defense
[15]

However, on 22 October Afghanistans Independent Election Commission disqualified 16 of the
candidates, leaving only 11 in the race.
[4]
The different candidates were disqualified for a number of
reasons, among them were education levels, documentation and the number of required signatures.
The disqualified candidates have 20 days to appeal the decision and on 19 November 2013 the
Independent Election Commission will present the final list of confirmed candidates.
[4]

On 25 November 2013, the Independent Election Commission announced the ordering of the
candidate names for the election ballot as follows:
[19]

Candidate Running
mate
Coalition Occupation Political
spectrum

Abdullah
Abdullah
National Coalition
Mohammad
Khan
Hezbi Islami
Mohammad
Mohaqiq
Hizb-e Wahdat Islami
Mardum-e
Afghanistan
"National Coalition of
Afghanistan"
(National Front, Jamiat-e Islami, NUPA)
Supported by
(Hezbi Islami, Hizb-e Wahdat Islami
Mardum-e Afghanistan, Yunus Qanuni, Atta
Muhammad Nur
[20]
)
Politician. Former Foreign
Minister.
Islamic
democracy,
Reform

Ashraf Ghani
Ahmadzai
Independent
Abdul Rashid
Dostum
National Islamic
Movement
Sarwar Danish
Hizb-e Wahdat Islami
Afghanistan
None
Supported by
(National Solidarity Party of
Afghanistan, Afghan Mellat,National Islamic
Front, Sayed Mansoor Naderi, Milli Nijat
Party),
[21][22]
)
Politician. Former Finance
Minister.
Reform
Pro-BSA
[23]

Candidate Running
mate
Coalition Occupation Political
spectrum

Zalmai Rassoul
Independent
Ahmad Zia
Massoud
Jamiat-e Islami
Habiba Sarobi
Truth and Justice
None
Supported by
(Quayum Karzai, Abdul Rahim
Wardak, Sardar Mohammad Nadir Naeem,
Hezb-e-Islami Shura Alliance,
[24]
Hezbi Islami
of Waheedullah Sabaoon
[25]
)
Politician. Former Foreign
Minister.
Centrism

Abdul Rasul
Sayyaf
Islamic Dawa
Mohammad
Ismail Khan
Jamiat-e Islami
Abdul Wahab
Urfan Erfan
Independent
Politician.
Wahhabi
Islamism

Gul Agha Sherzai
Independent
Sayed Hussain
Alimi Balkhi
Independent
Mohammad
Hashim Zare
Independent

Politician. Former
Governor of Nangarhar.


Qutbuddin Hilal
Independent
Enayatullah
Enayat
Independent
Mohammad Ali
Nabizada
Independent
None
Supported by
(Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin
[26]
)
Politician. Former Deputy
Prime Minister. Former
member of Hezbi Islami.
Conservative
Islamism
Mohammad
Daud Sultanzoy
Independent
Ahmad Saeedi
Independent
Kazima
Mohaqiq
Independent
Politician.

Candidate Running
mate
Coalition Occupation Political
spectrum

Hidayat Amin
Arsala
Independent
Gen. Khudaidad
Independent
Safia Seddiqi
Independent

Politician, Economist,
Former Finance and
Foreign Minister.

Withdrawn Candidates
Quayum Karzai
Independent
Wahidullah
Shahrani
Independent
Ibrahim Qasmi
Independent
Withdrew and supported
Rassoul
Politician & Businessman.
Reform
Pro-Western
[27]


Abdul Rahim
Wardak
Independent
Shah Abdul
Ahad Afzali
Independent
Sayed Hussein
Anwari
Islamic Movement
Withdrew and supported
Rassoul
[25]

Politician. Former
Minister of Defence.

Sardar
Mohammad
Nadir Naeem
Independent
Taj Mohammad
Akbar
Independent
Azizullah Puya
Independent
Withdrew and supported
Rassoul
[28]

Secretary to former King
of Afghanistan.

Declined to run[edit]
Sarwar Ahmedzai
[29]

Mohammad Hanif Atmar
[29]

Ali Ahmad Jalali
[29]

Zalmay Khalilzad
[29]

Fawzia Koofi
[30]

Mohammad Mohaqiq
[29]

Atta Muhammad Nur
[29]

Mullah Omar
[31]

Mohammad Yunos Qanuni
[29]

Ghulam Farooq Wardak
[32]

Mirwais Yasini
[32]




Indian general election, 2014
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Indian general election, 2014


2009
members
7 April 12 May 2014
members



543 seats in the Lok Sabha
272 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls



Leader Rahul Gandhi Narendra Modi

Leader's seat

current Amethi

contesting Amethi Vadodara, Varanasi

Party INC BJP

Alliance UPA NDA

Last election 28.55%, 206 seats 18.80%, 116 seats


Incumbent Prime Minister

Manmohan Singh
INC


A general election is taking place in nine phases, the longest election in the country's history, from 7
April to 12 May 2014 to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha in India. Voting will take place in all
543 parliamentary constituencies of India to elect members of parliament in the Lok Sabha.
[1]
The
result of this election will be declared on 16 May, before the 15th Lok Sabha completes its
constitutional mandate on 31 May 2014.
[2]

According to the Election Commission of India, the electoral population in 2014 is 81.45 crores, the
largest in the world.
[3]
There is an increase of 10 crores newly eligible voters.
[4]
This also will be the
longest and the most expensive general election in the history of the country with the Election
Commission of India estimating that the election will cost the exchequer 35 billion, excluding the
expenses incurred for security and individual political parties.
[5]
Parties are expected to spend 3.05
thousand crores (about US$500 million) in the election, according to the Centre for Media Studies.
This is three times the amount spent in the previous election and is the world's second highest after
the US$7 billion spent on the2012 U.S. presidential election.
[6]
Though unelected, incumbent Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh has ruled himself out as a prime ministerial candidate.
[7]

Background
By constitutional requirement, elections to the Lok Sabha must be held at most every five years or
whenever parliament is dissolved by the president. The previous election, to the 15th Lok Sabha,
was conducted in AprilMay 2009, and its term will naturally expire on 31 May 2014. The election is
being organised and conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and are normally held in
multiple phases, to better handle the large electoral base and security concerns.
Since the last general election in 2009, the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement by Anna Hazare,
and other similar moves by Baba Ramdev, have gathered momentum and political interest.
[8]
The
BJP also made inroads by winning a majority of theVidhan Sabha in the Goa election and winning
despite a tradition of anti-incumbency in Punjab. However, it lost governing in
Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and its southern bastion of Karnataka to the INC. It also failed in its
having its nominated candidate with the 2012 presidential election, particularly because allies such
as the Shiv Sena and Janata Dal (United) failed to follow coalition lines. Similarly, the Telangana
movement for a separate Telangana from Andhra Pradesh also continued with agitations, including
the initial central government decision to grant statehood and then rescind it after counter-protests.
The move was accompanied by calls for other separate areas including Vidharba and Gorkhaland.
Andhra politics was further shaken following death of its chief minister, Y. S. R. Reddy. His son, Y.
S. Jaganmohan Reddy, then broke from the INC and founded the YSR Congress taking several
politicians with him.
On 8 December 2013, four legislative assembly elections resulted in victories or pluralities for the
BJP in all provinces. The BJP won Rajasthan from the INC, it won a plurality in the INC bastion of
Delhi (where there was a hung assembly) and held on to Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The
BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, was generally credited in the media for the
result.
[9][10]
However, in Madhya Pradesh the party's national vice-president and MP Prabhat
Jha said of the Muslim vote: "Definitely they voted for us. More than 70% of the Muslim voters
backed BJP's programmes and policies."Indore's Qazi Abdul Rehman Farooqui suggested that it
was Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan that ensured the result was an even bigger BJP majority
saying that "had Modi not been projected as the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Chouhan would
have got more votes."
[11]
The BJP's Arun Jaitley suggested the INC-led UPA government was now
a lame duck.
[12]




World Presidents and Prime Ministers 2014

Afghanistan : President - Hamid Karzai; Capital - Kabul.

Algeria : President - Abdelaziz Bouteflika; Prime Minister - Ahmed Ouyahia; Capital-Algiers.

Argentina : President- Ms. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner; Capital- Buenos Aires.

Australia : Governor-General- Ms. Quentin Bryce; Prime Minister - Kevin Rudd; Capital (Federal)-
Canberra.

Austria : President- Heinz Fischer; Chancellor-Werner Faymann, Capital- Vienna.

Bahrain : King - Hamad ibn al-Khalifah; Prime Minister - Sheikh Khalifah Sulman al-Khalifah; Capital-
Manama.

Bangladesh : President - Abdul Hamid; Prime Minister - Ms. Sheikh Hasina; Capital- Dhaka.

Belarus : President- Alexander Lukashenko; Prime Minister - Mikhail Myasnikovich; Capital- Minsk.

Belgium : King - Albert II; Prime Minister-Herman Van Rompuy; Capital- Brussels.

Bhutan : King - Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk; Prime Minister-Tshering Tobgay; Capital
Thimphu

Bolivia : President- Evo Morales; Capital La Paz.

Brazil : President- Ms. Dilma Rousseff; Capital - Brasilia.

Bulgaria : President - Georgi Purvanov; Prime Minister - Boyko Borisov; Capital-Sofia.

Burkina Faso : President Blaise Compaore; Prime Minister Luc-Adolphe-Tiao; Capital-
Ouagadougou.

Cambodia : King - Norodom Sihamoni; Prime Minister - Hun Sen; Capital Phnom Penh.

Canada : Governor-General- David Lloyd Johnston; Prime Minister - Stephen Harper; Capital- Ottawa.

Chile : President - Ms. Sebastian Pinera; Capital - Santiago.

China : President- Xi Jinping; Prime Minister-Li Keqiang; Capital- Beijing.

Colombia : President- Juan Manuel Santos; Capital - Bogota.

Croatia : President - Stjepan Mesic; Prime Minister -Dr. Ivo Sanader; Capital-Zagreb.

Cuba : President- Raul Castro; Capital -Havana.

Czech Republic : President- Milos Zeman; Prime Minister -Petr Necas; Capital-Prague.

Denmark : Queen - Margrethe II; Prime Minister- Ms. Helle Thorning-Schmidt; Capital - Copenhagen.

Ecuador : President- Rafael Correa; Capital-Quito.

Egypt : President - Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (Acting); Capital-Cairo.

Finland : President - Ms. Tarja Halonen; Prime Minister - Matti Vanhanen; Capital-Helsinki.

France : President- Francois Hollande; Prime Minister - Jean-Marc Ayrault; Capital- Paris.

Germany : President - Joachim Gruck; Chancellor - Ms. Angela Merkel; Capital-Berlin.

Guyana : President - Bharrat Jagdeo; Prime Minister - Samuel Hinds; Capital- Georgetown.

Greece : President Karolos Papoulias; Prime Minister Antonis Samaras; Capital - Athens.

Hungary : President- Janos Ader; Prime Minister - Viktor Orban; Capital- Budapest.

Indonesia : President - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono; Capital- Jakarta.

Iran : President - Mr. Hassan Rouhani; Capital- Teheran.

Iraq : President -Jalai Talabani; Prime Minister - Nouri al-Maliki, Capital- Baghdad.

Ireland : President- Michael D. Higgins; Prime Minister - Enda Kenny, Capital- Dublin.

Israel : President - Shimon Peres; Prime Minister - Benjamin Netanyahu; Capital- Jerusalem.

Italy : President - Georgio Napolitano; Prime Minister- Enrico Letta (Premier-designate); Capital-
Rome.

Japan : Emperor- Akihito; Prime Minister : Shinzo Abe; Capital- Tokyo.

Jordan : King - Abdullah II; Prime Minister-Nader al-Dahabi; Capital- Amman.

Kazakhstan : President - Nursultan A. Nazarbayev; Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov; Capital- Astana.

Kenya : President - Uhuru Kenyatta; Capital - Nairobi.

Korea, North : President Kim Jong-un; Capital- Pyongyang.

Korea, South : President- Park Geun-hye; Prime Minister - Kim Hwang-sik; Capital - Seoul.

Kuwait : Emir - Sheikh Sabah ai-Ahmad al-Sabah; Capital - Kuwait.

Kyrgyzstan : President Nursultan Kurmanbek Bakiyey; Prime Minister - Daniyar Usenov Capital -
Bishkek.

Lebanon : President Michel Suleiman; Prime Minister - Najib Mikati, Capital - Beirut.

Madagascar : President - Andy Rajoelina; Prime Minister - Eugene Mangalaza; Capital-Antananarivo.

Malaysia : King - Sultan Abdul Halim; Prime Minister- Najib Tun Razak; Capital-Kuala Lumpur.

Maldives : President - Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik; Capital - Male.

Mauritius : President - Mr. Rajkeshwur Purryag; Prime Minister - Navin Ramgoolam; Capital - Port
Louis.

Mexico : President Enrique Pena Nieto; Capital Mexico City.

Mongolia : President - Nambaryn Enkhbayar; Prime Minister - Sukhbaatar Batblod; Capital - Ulan
Bator.

Montenegro : President - Filip Vujanovic; Prime Minister-Milo Dukanovic; Capital Podgorica

Morocco : King - Mohammed VI; Prime Minister - Abbas El Fassi; Capital - Rabat.

Myanmar (Burma) : Head of Govt. : Gen. Than Shwe; Capital - Nyapidaw.

Nepal : President - Dr. Ram Baran Yadav; Prime Minister Khil Raj Regmi; Capital -Kathmandu.

Netherlands : Queen - Beatrix; Capital-Amsterdam.

New Zealand : Governor-General Jerry Mateparae; Prime Minister - John Key; Capital- Wellington.

Nigeria : President - Goodluck Jonathan; Capital - Abuja.

Norway : King - Harald V; Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg; Capital - Oslo.

Pakistan : President - Mr. Mamnoon Hussain; Prime Minister - Navas Shareef; Capital -Islamabad.

Panama : President - Ricardo Martenelli; Capital - Panama City.

Paraguay : President - Fernando Lugo; Capital Asuncion

Peru : President - Alan Garcia; Prime Minister -Javier Velasquez; Capital- Lima.

Philippines : President - Benigno S. Aquino III- Arroyo; Capital - Manila.

Poland : President - Lech Kaczynski; Prime Minister- Donald Tusk; Capital- Warsaw.

Portugal : President - Amibal Cavaco Silva; Prime Minister -Pedro Passos Coelho; Capital-Lisbon.

Romania : President - Traian Basescu; Capital - Bucharest.

Russia : President - Vladimir Putin; Prime Minister - Dmitry Medvedev; Capital - Moscow.

Rwanda : President - Paul Kagame; Prime Minister - Bernard Makuza; Capital -Kigali.

Saudi Arabia : King - Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud; Capital- Riyadh.

Serbia : President - Boris Tadic; Prime Minister - Mirko Cvetkovic; Capital - Belgrade.

Singapore : President - S. R. Nathan; Prime Minister - Lee Hsien Loong; Capital - Singapore.

Slovakia : President - Ivan Gasparovic; Prime Minister - Robert Fico; Capital-Bratislava.

South Africa : President- Jacob Zuma; Capital-Cape Town (Legislative) and Tshwane (Formerly
Pretoria) (Administrative).

Spain : King - Juan Carlos I; Prime Minister-Mariano Rajoy; Capital -Madrid.

Sri Lanka : President - Mahinda Rajapaksa; Prime Minister - D.M. Jayaratne; Capital- Sri
Jayewardenepura Kotte (Colombo).

South Sudan : President - Salva Kiir Mayardit; Capital - Juba.

Sudan : President - Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir; Capital - Khartoum.

Sweden : King - Carl XVI Gustaf; Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt; Capital - Stockholm.

Switzerland : President - Ms. Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf; Capital Berne

Syria : President - Bashar Al-Assad; Prime Minister - Muhammad Naji al-Otari; Capital- Damascus.

Taiwan : President - Ma Ying-jeou; Prime Minister -Wu Den-yih; Capital Taipei.

Thailand : King- Bhumibol Adulyadej; Prime Minister -Yingluck Shinawatra; Capital Bangkok.

Turkey : President - Abdullah Gul; Prime Minister - Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Capital- Ankara.

Ukraine : President - Victor Yushchenko; Prime Minister- Mykola Azarov; Capital- Kiev.

United Arab Emirates : Prime Minister- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum; Capital- Abu
Dhabi.

United Kingdom : Queen - Elizabeth II; Prime Minister - David Cameron; Capital - London.

United States of America : President Barack Obama; Secretary of State -John Kerry; Capital-
Washington, D.C.

Uzbekistan : President - Islam A. Karimov; Prime Minister - Shavkat Mirziyayev; Capital- Tashkent.

Venezuela : President - Nicolas Maduro; Capital - Caracas.

Vietnam : President - Nguyen Minh Triet; Prime Minister - Nguyen Tan Dung; Capital-Hanoi.

Zimbabwe : President - Robert G. Mugabe; Prime Minister - Morgan Tsvangirai; Capital- Harare.

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