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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan

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unprotected include the four laws that established the system of democratic local governments. (Those in favor of this change have argued that it would enable each province to evolve its own systems. Opponents fear that authoritarian provincial governments could disempower or even dismantle the system of local democracies.)
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Ten laws had been added by the LFO to the Sixth Schedule, which is a list of "laws that are not to be altered, repealed or amended without the previous sanction of the President." After this amendment, five of those laws will lose their Sixth Schedule protection after six years. Laws to be
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within 30 days of the passage of this amendment, he shall be deemed to be elected to the office of President. (On January 1, 2004, Musharraf won 658 out of 1,170 electoral-college votes - a 56% majority - and was thereby deemed to be elected
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Article 63(1)(d) of the Constitution to become operative after December 31, 2004. The intent of this was to prohibit a person from holding both a political office (such as that of the president) and an
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This amendment made many changes to Pakistan's constitution. Many of these changes dealt with the office of the president and the reversal of the effects of the
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A Governor's power to dissolve a Provincial Assembly is similarly subject to Supreme Court approval or veto.
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passed in December 2003, after over a year of political wrangling between supporters and opponents of
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Should the President win a majority in a vote of confidence in the
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Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan
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Op-Ed by Hasan Askari-Rizvi, Daily Times, Pakistan.
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Pervez Musharraf
Early life
Military career
1999 coup d'état
Political career
High treason case
Enlightened moderation
Referendum
2004
2007
PML (Q)
All Pakistan Muslim League
Seventeenth Amendment
Suspension of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Siege of Lal Masjid
National Reconciliation Ordinance
2007 state of emergency
Impeachment movement
In the Line of Fire: A Memoir


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Constitution of Pakistan
Pakistani President
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