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Pakistan
Index
The president, in keeping with the constitutional
provision
that the state religion is Islam, must be a Muslim.
Elected for a
five-year term by an electoral college consisting of
members of
the Senate and National Assembly and members of the
provincial
assemblies, the president is eligible for reelection. But
no
individual may hold the office for more than two
consecutive
terms. The president may resign or be impeached and may be
removed from office for incapacity or gross misconduct by
a twothirds vote of the members of the parliament. The
president
generally acts on the advice of the prime minister but has
important residual powers. One of the most important--a
legacy of
Zia--is contained in the Eighth Amendment, which gives the
president the power to dissolve the National Assembly "in
his
discretion where, in his opinion . . . a situation has
arisen in
which the Government of the Federation cannot be carried
on in
accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and an
appeal
to the electorate is necessary."
Data as of April 1994
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