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Chap 12 Leaders of Pakistan
Chap 12 Leaders of Pakistan
Chap 12 Leaders of Pakistan
FOUNDATION OF DEMOCRACY;
.LEGISLATIVE BODY;It make legislations(to makes laws and
regulations)
.EXECUTIVE BODY;one which executes the law,govt is one
which executes the law pm,cabinet,police and civil service.
.COURT;punish those who breaks the law.
AYUB KHAN;
.He was the first pakistani commander and chief of pakistan
armed forces and became the 2 president of pakistan.
.He was educated from Aligarh muslim university and joined the
british army to fight in WW2 against japanese.
.He became president of pakistan in 1958 and introduced several
reforms to develop pakistan including the green revolution.
.He made a strong alliance with USA and introduced 1962
constitution in pakistan to form a presidential form of government .
REFORMS;
1)POLITICAL REFORMS;
.Ayub khan introduce basic democracies order on 26 oct 1959
and claimed that he had brought democracy to the roots of the
country.
.It was a four tier system in which ordinary people will elect union
council member who in turn elected district and divisional
members.
.In 1962 constitution ,80000 basic democrats were form into an
electoral college for the election of president and the member of
central and provisional assemblies.
.In 1959,ayub khan decided to take vote of confidence from basic
democrats and received 95% of vote from them.
ACHIEVEMENTS
1962 CONSTITUTION;
.It was presented by ayub khan in 1962 and he described it a
combination of democracy with discipline.
.President have a power as he can pass and reject any law he
wants and he had also emergency power to dissolve government.
.The president have power to nominate head of judiciary and
head of provincial governors and as well as he can nominate the
members of cabinet.
.He also stated that president would not be removed unless there
is an impeachment by judiciary.
.Both urdu and bengali were recognized as the national language
of pakistan and session of national assembly was to be held in
Dhaka and Islamabad.
CRITICISM;
.It gave too much power to ruling elite.
.East pakistan criticize that all the power is given to civil and
military
officals of west pakistan. Although ayub khan made some
reforms.
.Politicians felt that they do not have any real power and ayub
khan dictated the, all the policies to be implemented in a country.
DECADE OF DEVELOPMENT
.AGRICULTURAL REFORMS;
.Ayub khan introduced those land reforms to increase the
agricultural production.
.The main idea of these reforms that instead of small subsistence
form there would be larger farms which can contribute to national
output.
.A law was passed saying that no farms could be smaller that
12.5 acres or larger than 500 acres(irrigated) or 1000 acres
(unirrigated).
.The larger farms were also redistributed which forced the land
owners to find tennants to cultivate their land which increases the
productivity of that farms.
.GREEN REVOLUTION;
.Ayub khan started mechanizing agriculture,introduced tractors.
.Three major damns were developed under him under a treaty of
indus water treaty.
.Ayub khan give loans to farmers to built wells for their agriculture
to reduce the dependence on canal agriculture.
Impact;
The dams and major canal which made under indus water treaty
,he took aid from then,pakistan had made all of these things but
they start depending on foreign currency;
This increasing output from farms was named as green
revolution.
CRITICISM;
Only the rich landlord were able to take advantage of ayub khan
reform,rest were not able to afford.
.These tractors were only brought by rich landlords,the poor
cannot purchase it,only the rich can earn profit from it.
INDUSTRIAL REFORMS;
.Pakistan was a plain agricultural country,there was no any
machinery to setup factories.
.Ayub khan had to start from the beginning.
.He took loan and aid from foreign countries to made industrial
infrastructure
.In 1962,oil refinery in karachi was introduced by him as it give
rise to all industries,as it was cheaper to buy crude oil instead of
its product which is expensive.
In 1962,mineral development corporation was made which mainly
focus on minerals only.
.In 1964 ,regional corporation development was developed under
it 3 countries joined Turkey,iran and pakistan.
.Afghanistan was offered but they denied,highway was linked
from karachi to quetta to iran to Turkey.
.It was very beneficial.
.It led to profit and higher productivity and profits of pakistan.
.It was made to develop to trade commerce and industry in
pakistan.
.Ayub khan announces Export Bonus Scheme in which incentive
were given to those factories for more export.
IMPACT;
All of these majors led an immense growth of pakistan,economic
growth led to 7%.
CRITICISM;
It came when the significant growth was happening,but only 22
families were becoming rich.
.It was also revealed that 22 families controlled 66% of pakistan
industrial asset and 80% of pakistan banking and insurance
companies.
.It was also found that most of these 22 families belong to west
pakistan and east pakistan resented it.
SOCIAL REFORMS;
.Rehabilitation of refugees with the help of army.
.He appointed general azam khan who was made rehabilitation
minister.
.75000 refugees were settled in new dwelling near karachi,
.The factory owner must provide accommodation to its worker.
.Family planning programme
.US wanted to implement this program in pakistan through
cinema,radio,newspaper that there should be smaller families,it
was introduced through US aid.
.Ayub khan was becoming unpopular because of it by ulamas that
natural things should not be interfere.
EDUCATIONAL REFORMS;
.A new curriculum was introduced in the school,new textbooks
were published.
,Government introduce literacy programme however people were
not ready to educate their children.
.New school were developed,New colleges were developed.
.Medical schools were made to educate children.
.Nursing training schools were also introduced.
IMPACT;
He mechanized the schooling system,he tried to improve literary
rate of pakistan but due to economic problem of people they did
not send their children to school.
.NEW CAPITAL;
PROBLEMS WITH KARACHI;
.It was economic city which means there was
transport,traffic,pollution,factories, and commercial activities.
.It was not a safe city as it was in a coastal region,there was a
major attack on karachi in 1965,attack by India at an oil refinery
and blazes were throughout the city. The Capital must be safe.
.It was not a planned city, there were no commercial blocks,there
were no residential blocks
.ADVANTAGES OF ISLAMABAD;
.Planned city.,as it has bloc for separate activity.
.It is divided into 8 self certain zones.Each having a separate uses
such as industrial sector,educational,residential and commercial.
.It is a safe city as it was surrounded by mountains which means it
is protected from four sides.
.Army headquarters are near islamabad so it can be easily
protected.
.Their is scenic beauty,it looks good capital city,looks attractive
city ,tourism and greenery.
.DECLINE OF AYUB KHAN;
1)DICTATORIAL RULE;
.Ayub khan can pass any law he wanted and rejected any law he
wanted.
.He didnot listen to the advice of any minister.
.He suppressed the political opposition against him.
.It was a one man government.
.He dictated the policies to the government.
IMPACT;
Many politicians think that they did not have any value,no
voice,Ayub khan just want them to follow his policies due to
this,they resented this dictatorial rule.Many of the politicians
joined the protest against them.
2)CORRUPTION OF BASIC DEMOCRATS;
.Basic democrats felt that they are too powerful as they are
supported by president,they started to misuse their power.
.They started to accept the bribe.
.Even for the legal rights for the citizen.
.They started corruption in for the landlords,landlords want them
to be corrupt.
.Basic democrats were very unpopular among the people. This
was blamed on Ayub khan because he introduced it.
3)ECONOMIC PROBLEMS;
.Even though pakistan was developing due to many policies but
were benefiting the rich industrialist and landlord.
.22 families had almost all the wealth of pakistan.66% of pakistan
industrial asset,80% of pakistan banking and insurance were
controlled by them,other people were poor and living on a poverty
line.
.Pakistan was ruled by a rich elite mostly from west pakistan.
IMPACT;
Because of this poverty and lack of resources,protest started all
over pakistan.
4)1965 WAR;
.War was started to free kashmir.
.It ends in pakistan defending himself hardly.
.Ayub khan from pakistan and lal bahadur shahstri both went to
tashkent in russia and Russia meditated india and pakistan but in
this agreement kashmir issue was not solved so people blamed
ayub khan that he is not able to solve kashmir issue in Tashkent.
.people started protest against him and in reaction to this issue he
removed foreign minister zulfiqar ali bhutto that he was not able to
solve the matter of kashmir.zulfiqar ali bhutto started protest all
over west pakistanthat ayub khan put him in jail which creates
more resentment.
5)1965 ELECTIONS;
.In january 1965,elections were held for the president of
pakistan,Ayub khan found a new party called convention Muslim
league to condense the election for the position of president.
.Opposition party joined together and agreed to support
Muhtarma fatima jinnah for the presidency of pakistan.
.Ayub khan won 64% of the votes and won the elections but there
were white scale association of rigging ,this led to riots and a law
and order situation to decline in a country.
.8 parties form an alliance called democratic action committee
and protested against the rule of ayub khan throughout the
country.
.By 1969 he realized that he has lost the support and resigned
from his position.
GENERAL YAHYA KHAN;
.He came after ayub khan,he become a chief of martial law
administration after this ayub khan became president.
.Yahya khan announced three major points;
.He said that basic democracies was not successful so he
dissolved it and restored the position of NA and PA.
.They announced that there would be elections and a properly
elected government of pakistan.
.He also abolished the one unit scheme which has brought lot of
criticism and restored provincial government in pakistan.
.Yahya khan also decided that the election would be based on
“one man one vote” to show his commitment towards democracy.
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