After the constitutional term of the government ended with the dissolution of the National Assembly last night, Pakistan will now appoint its eighth caretaker prime minister to head the interim.
On August 9, Pakistan’s National Assembly dissolved just days before its tenure ended, paving the way for a caretaker government set up to assume office.
Full-fledged caretaker governments are not required by the Constitution anywhere else in the world; the concept was added to the 1973 Constitution in Pakistan by Gen Ziaul Haq in 1985.