Mazari caretaker government

The Mazari caretaker ministry under Balakh Sher Mazari as the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan was sworn into office after the Nawaz government was overthrown on 19 April 1993 by president Ghulam Ishaq Khan. Mazari's tenure as caretaker prime minister ended abruptly on 26 May 1993 when the Supreme Court revoked the presidential order and reinstated Nawaz Sharif as the prime minister.^[1]

Mazari caretaker ministry
32nd Cabinet of Pakistan
Incumbent
Date formed	19 April 1993
People and organisations
Head of state	Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Head of government	Balakh Sher Mazari
Status in legislature	Caretaker government
History
Predecessor	First Sharif I
Successor	First Sharif II

Government formation

On 18 April 1993, president Ghulam Ishaq Khan exercised his extra-constitutional presidential powers, instituted to him through the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, to resolve the power struggle in Pakistan and dismissed the government of prime minister Nawaz Sharif. After dissolving both, the national and the provincial assemblies, Khan appointed Mazari as the caretaker prime minister.^[2] The same day, a caretaker cabinet was also sworn into the house.

This was the second time that president Khan had invoked Article 58-2b of the Eighth Amendment to bring down an elected head of government. The charges of corruption and economic mismanagement that Khan levelled against Nawaz Sharif were almost entirely identical to those he had earlier brought against Benazir Bhutto in 1990.

Cabinet

1993

A caretaker cabinet of 22 ministers took an oath on 18 April 1993 under caretaker prime minister Balakh Sher Mazari and the president Ghulam Ishaq Khan.^[3] The Mazari caretaker cabinet was "[Pakistan's] most short-lived caretaker cabinet".^[4]

Ministry[3]	Minister
Caretaker Prime Minister	Balakh Sher Mazari
Ministry of Housing & Works, Environment and Urban Affairs	Anwar Saifullah Khan
Ministry of Defence	Hazar Khan Bijarani
Ministry of Water and Power	Asif Ali Zardari
Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development	Sardar Fateh Mohammad Hasni
Ministry of Defence Production	Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources	Arbab Jehangir Khan
Ministry of Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis	Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi
Ministry of Special Education and Special Welfare	Mir Ahmad Nawaz Bugti
Ministry of Women Development	Sardar Wazir Ahmed Khan Jogezai
Ministry of Political Affairs	Arbab Ghulam Rahim
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs	Makhdoom Tanvir ul Hassan Gilani
Ministry of Labour	Zahid Sarfraz
Ministry of Management Services	Manzoor Ahmed Gichki
Ministry of Commerce	Ehsan-ul-Haq Piracha
Ministry of Food and Agriculture	Jehangir Bader
Ministry of Health	Mohammad Afaque Khan Shahid
Ministry of Industry	Zafar Ali Laghari
Ministry of Railways	Malik Mohammad Qasim
Ministry of Narcotics Control	Sardar Aseff Ahmed Ali
KANA	Amanullah Khan Jadoon
Ministry of Foreign Affairs	Sharifuddin Pirzada
Ministry of Production Welfare	Zulfiqar Ali Shah Jamote

References

1. Blood, Peter R. (1 December 1996). Pakistan: A Country Study. DIANE Publishing. pp. 237–. ISBN 9780788136313. Retrieved 16 June 2012.
2. "Balakh Sher Mazari Becomes Caretaker Prime Minister". Story of Pakistan. 1 June 2003. Retrieved 12 July 2014.
3. Iqbal, Muhammad Mohsin (13 March 2013). "Referees of the Power Game" (Blog post). Retrieved 12 July 2014.
4. Asghar, Raja (18 October 1999). "Musharraf offers a caretaker government with a difference". Rediff. Islamabad. Retrieved 12 July 2014.