List of prime ministers of Pakistan
Template:Short description Template:Pp-extended Template:Use Pakistani English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Multiple image Template:Politics of Pakistan The prime minister of PakistanTemplate:Efn is the head of the Government of Pakistan.<ref>Article 153(2a)-153(2c) Template:Webarchive in Chapter 3: Special Provisions, Part V: Relations between Federation and Provinces in the Constitution of Pakistan.</ref> The prime minister is vested with the responsibility of running the administration through his appointed federal cabinet, formulating national and foreign policies to ensure the safeguard of the interests of the nation and its people through the Council of Common Interests as well as making the decision to call nationwide general elections for the bicameral Parliament of Pakistan.<ref name="BBC_PM_role">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="List">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Staesmen">Template:Cite web</ref>
Since 1947, Pakistan has had 20 prime ministers, aside from the appointed caretaker prime ministers who were only mandated to oversee the system until the election process was finished. In Pakistan's parliamentary system, the prime minister is sworn in by the president and usually is the chairman or the president of the party or coalition that has a majority in the National Assembly– the lower house of Pakistan Parliament.
After the partition of British India on the midnight of 14/15 August 1947, Pakistan followed the British system by creating the post of prime minister based at the Prime Minister's Secretariat.<ref name="List"/><ref name="Staesmen"/> The then governor-general of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, took advice from the Founding Fathers of the nation and appointed Liaquat Ali Khan to establish and lead his administration on 15 August 1947.<ref name="LAK">Template:Cite web</ref> Before the presidential system in 1960, seven prime ministers had served between 1947 until martial law in 1958. In 1971, the office was again revived but ceased to exist shortly.<ref name="NA">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Nagendra">Template:Cite book</ref> Executive powers and authority was given to the prime minister when the full set of the Constitution of Pakistan was promulgated in 1973 but the post was ceased from its effective operations after another martial law in 1977.<ref name="ConsofPak">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="1977ML">Template:Cite book</ref> After the general elections held in 1985, the office came to its existence.<ref name="NA"/> During 1985 to 1997 executive powers were share between presidents and prime ministers due to 8th amendment to Constitution. In 1997, 13th amendment were passed and prime minister again got executive powers. Between 1988 and 1999, the office was held by Benazir Bhutto of the Pakistan People's Party and Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan Muslim League (N), each holding the office for two non-consecutive terms between 1988 and 1999: Bhutto during 1988–90 and 1993–96;<ref name="Benazir">Template:Cite web</ref> and Sharif during 1990–93 and 1997–99.<ref name="Nawaz">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=Mittal>Template:Cite book</ref>
After the general elections held in 2002, Zafarullah Khan Jamali was invited to form his administration as its prime minister.<ref name="Jamali">Template:Cite web</ref> After the Supreme Court of Pakistan's ruling to disqualify Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani in 2012, the business of his administration was looked after by Raja Pervez Ashraf until the caretaker administration was setup under Mir Hazar Khan Khoso.<ref name="Ashraf">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Gillani disqualified">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="List"/><ref name="Staesmen"/>
Nurul Amin of the Muslim League had the shortest term, at 13 days. Yusuf Raza Gilani of the Pakistan Peoples Party had the longest consecutive term of 4 years and 86 days. At approximately 9 years and 179 days in total, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan Muslim League (N) has been the longest-serving prime minister for a non-consecutive term.<ref name="List"/><ref name="BBC-1999_coup">Template:Cite web</ref> Sharif was re-elected for a third non-consecutive term on 5 June 2013, which is a record in the history of Pakistan.<ref name="BBC-3rd_term">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Tribune">Template:Cite web</ref> No prime minister of Pakistan has yet served their full five-year term.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Key
| Party name | |
|---|---|
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Muslim League / Pakistan Muslim League |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Awami League |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Republican Party |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Peoples Party |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | National Peoples Party |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Muslim League (N) |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Muslim League (Q) |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Tehreek-e-Insaf |
| style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Independent |
List
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| 1 | File:Liaquat Ali Khan 1945.jpg | Liaquat Ali Khan
نوابزادہ لیاقت علی خان |
14 August 1947 | 16 October 1951Template:Assassinated | Template:Ayd | – | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Muslim League | Following advice given by the Founding Fathers of the nation, Governor-General Muhammad Ali Jinnah appointed and invited the Finance Minister Liaquat Ali Khan to set up and run his administration in 1947. He was assassinated in 1951, and Khawaja Nazimuddin took the office.<ref name="LAK" /><ref name="Khawaja">Template:Cite web</ref> | 1st | Template:N/a | |
| 2 | File:Khawaja Nazimuddin of Pakistan.JPG | Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin
خواجہ ناظم الدین |
17 October 1951 | 17 April 1953 | Template:Ayd | – | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Muslim League | Nazimuddin became Prime Minister of Pakistan after the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951.<ref name="Khawaja" /> He left the office when Governor-General Malik Ghulam Muhammad dissolved his government in 1953.<ref name="List" /> | align="center" Template:N/a | ||
| 3 | File:Mohammad Ali Bogra portrait (cropped).jpg | Mohammad Ali Bogra
محمد علی بوگرہ |
17 April 1953 | 12 August 1955 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Muslim League | A diplomat and relatively unknown personality to Pakistani politics, Bogra established the Ministry of Talents but his administration was dismissed in 1955 by the Governor-General after the legislative elections in 1954.<ref name="List" /> | 2nd | align="center" Template:N/a | |
| 4 | File:Mohamad Ali, primeiro-ministro do Paquistão, sem data.tif | Chaudhry Mohammad Ali
چوہدری محمد علی |
12 August 1955 | 12 September 1956 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Muslim League | Prior to becoming prime minister, Ali was a prominent bureaucrat. He resigned due to internal conflict in his party.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small | ||
| 5 | File:Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.png | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
حسین شہید سہروردی |
12 September 1956 | 17 October 1957 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Awami League | Popular for his wit in law, Suhrwardy resigned due to the loss of control over his party and support from the coalition partners in his administration.<ref name="List" /> | Template:N/a | ||
| 6 | File:Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar.jpg | Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar
ابراہیم اسماعیل چندریگر |
17 October 1957 | 11 December 1957 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Muslim League | Third shortest-tenured Prime Minister, Chundrigar established his administration but was removed a mere 55 days into his term amid a vote of no-confidence movement led by majority votes of the Republican Party and Awami League.<ref name="List" /> | align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small | ||
| 7 | File:Feroz Khan Noon.jpg | Sir Feroze Khan Noon
فیروز خان نون |
16 December 1957 | 7 October 1958 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Republican Party | A lawyer, Sir Feroze Khan's administration collapsed after his party's own President Iskander Mirza enforced martial law in 1958 in a view of extending his term of office<ref name="Nagendra1">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | Template:N/a | ||
| data-sort-value="7.5" Template:CNone | colspan=11 data-sort-value="Zz, C" Template:CNone | |||||||||||
| 8 | File:Nurul amin.jpg | Nurul Amin
نور الامین |
7 December 1971 | 20 December 1971 | Template:Ayd | 1970 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League | Shortest-tenured prime minister. After the general elections in 1971, Amin was invited to be appointed as prime minister under Yahya administration; he was also the first and the only vice president of Pakistan from 1970 to 1972, leading Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.<ref name="List"/> | 5th | Template:N/a | |
| data-sort-value="12.5" Template:CNone | colspan=11 data-sort-value="Zz, E" Template:CNone | |||||||||||
| 9 | File:Z A Bhutto (President of Pakistan).jpg | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
ذولفقار علی بھٹو |
14 August 1973 | 5 July 1977 | Template:Ayd | 1977 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Peoples Party | Bhutto resigned as president to become the empowered prime minister after the Constitution was repromulgated, which established a parliamentary system of government. He was deposed in the martial law in 1977 by his appointed army chief, General Zia, in July 1977.<ref name="1977ML" /><ref name="4military">Template:Cite web</ref> | 6th | Template:N/a | |
| data-sort-value="12.5" Template:CNone | colspan=11 data-sort-value="Zz, E" Template:CNone | |||||||||||
| 10 | File:Muhammad Khan Junejo.jpg | Muhammad Khan Junejo
محمد خان جنیجو |
24 March 1985 | 29 May 1988 | Template:Ayd | 1985 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Independent | Junejo was elected as the tenth Prime Minister of Pakistan in non-party based elections in 1985, therefore he was elected on an Independent ticket but he served the Pakistan Muslim League while before entering in office and during office. He was dismissed by the president as per the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution.<ref name="List" /> | 7th | Template:N/a | |
| data-sort-value="12.5" Template:CNone | colspan=11 data-sort-value="Zz, E" Template:CNone | |||||||||||
| 11 | File:Benazir bhutto 1989 cropped.jpg | Benazir Bhutto
بے نظیر بھٹو |
2 December 1988 | 6 August 1990 | Template:Ayd | 1988 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Peoples Party | Bhutto became the first woman in Pakistan to head a major political party, in 1982. Six years later, she became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state.<ref name="Benazir" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved her government using article 58-2b of Constitution. | 8th | Template:N/a | |
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| 12 | File:Nawaz Sharif detail, 981203-D-9880W-117.jpg | Nawaz Sharif
میاں محمد نواز شریف |
6 November 1990 | 18 July 1993 | Template:Ayd | 1990 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Islami Jamhoori Ittehad | Sharif was elected as the 12th prime minister of Pakistan on 1 November 1990.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> President Ghulam Ishaq Khan dissolved his government in April 1993, which was later on reinstated by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.<ref name="Nawaz" /> Sharif survived a serious constitutional crisis when President Khan attempted to dismiss him under article 58-2b, in April 1993, but he successfully challenged the decision in the Supreme Court.<ref name="Nawaz" /> Sharif resigned from the post negotiating a settlement that resulted in the removal of President as well, in July 1993.<ref name="APH">Template:Cite book</ref> | 9th | align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small | |
| data-sort-value="12.5" Template:CNone | colspan=11 data-sort-value="Zz, E" Template:CNone | |||||||||||
| (11) | File:(Benazir Buttho) Rueda de prensa de Felipe González y la primera ministra de Paquistán. Pool Moncloa. 14 de septiembre de 1994 (cropped).jpeg | Benazir Bhutto
بے نظیر بھٹو |
19 October 1993 | 5 November 1996 | Template:Ayd | 1993 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Peoples Party | Bhutto was re-elected for a second term, in 1993. She survived an attempted coup d'état in 1995. Bhutto's government was dismissed by president Farooq Leghari in November 1996.<ref name="DawnWireService, 1 June 1995">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="nyarrest">Template:Cite news</ref> | 10th | Template:N/a | |
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| (12) | File:Nawaz Sharif detail, 981203-D-9880W-117.jpg | Nawaz Sharif
میاں محمد نواز شریف |
17 February 1997 | 12 October 1999 | Template:Ayd | 1997 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Sharif was re-elected as prime minister, with an exclusive mandate from all over Pakistan for a non-consecutive second term, in February 1997.<ref name="Mittal" /><ref name="bbc profile">Template:Cite news</ref> His government was deposed by General Pervez Musharraf in October 1999, and martial law was imposed in the entire country.<ref name="BBC-1999_coup" /><ref name="Dugger">Template:Cite web</ref> | 11th | Template:N/a | |
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| 13 | File:Zafarullah Khan Jamali (cropped).jpg | Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali
میر ظفر اللہ خان جمالی |
23 November 2002 | 26 June 2004 | Template:Ayd | 2002 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | Jamali was elected as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in November 2002. He continued the foreign and economic policies of Pervez Musharraf but could not complete his term and resigned from the post in June 2004.<ref name="Jamali"/> | 12th | rowspan=3 align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |
| 14 | File:Pakistan delegation (cropped).jpg | Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain
چوہدری شجاعت حسین |
30 June 2004 | 23 August 2004 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | Second shortest-tenured Prime Minister. He was elected by the Parliament and served a 54-day period before Shaukat Aziz replaced him.<ref name="Shujaat">Template:Cite web</ref> | |||
| 15 | File:Shaukat Aziz.jpg | Shaukat Aziz
شوکت عزیز |
28 August 2004 | 15 November 2007 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League (Q) | Aziz took the office of Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2004. He left the office at the end of the parliamentary term, in November 2007, and became the first Prime Minister of Pakistan who left the seat after completion of parliamentary term.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | |||
| (C) | Office vacant: Muhammad Mian Soomro served as caretaker prime minister in the interim period. | |||||||||||
| 16 | File:Yousaf Raza Gilani 2010 (cropped).jpg | Yusuf Raza Gilani
سید یوسف رضا گیلانی |
25 March 2008 | 19 June 2012 | Template:Ayd | 2008 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Peoples Party | Gillani was elected as prime minister in March 2008. He was disqualified from his seat in the parliament in April 2012 by the Supreme Court for contempt of court.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 13th | align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:SmallTemplate:Efn | |
| 17 | Error creating thumbnail: | Raja Pervaiz Ashraf
راجا پرویز اشرف |
22 June 2012 | 24 March 2013 | Template:Ayd | – | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Peoples Party | Ashraf assumed the post of prime minister in June 2012, after Yousaf Raza Gillani was disqualified over contempt of court charges.<ref name="Ashraf" /> | align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small | ||
| (C) | Office vacant: Mir Hazar Khan Khoso served as caretaker prime minister in the interim period. | |||||||||||
| (12) | File:PrimeMinisterNawazSharif.jpg | Nawaz Sharif
میاں محمد نواز شریف |
5 June 2013 | 28 July 2017 | Template:Ayd | 2013 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | On 5 June 2013, Sharif took office for a third non-consecutive term after winning 182/342 seats with clear majority.<ref name="BBC-3rd_term"/><ref name="Tribune"/> He was disqualified on 28 July 2017 by the Supreme Court of Pakistan as a result of the Panama Papers case.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> | 14th | rowspan=2 align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small | |
| 18 | File:Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (cropped).jpg | Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
شاہد خاقان عباسی |
1 August 2017 | 31 May 2018 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Parliament elected Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as the Prime Minister after the impeachment of Nawaz Sharif. His term expired on 31 May 2018 alongside the dissolution of the National Assembly to facilitate a caretaker government in place until the 25 July general election.<ref name="Shahid_Shehbaz">Template:Cite news</ref> | |||
| (C) | Office vacant: Nasirul Mulk served as caretaker prime minister in the interim period. | |||||||||||
| 19 | File:Imran Khan 2019.jpg | Imran Khan
عمران خان |
18 August 2018 | 10 April 2022 | Template:Ayd | 2018 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf | General elections were held on 25 July 2018, which resulted in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf winning 156 out of 342 seats, forming a coalition government of 177 members including the MQM, BAP and others. On 18 August, he was elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan. On 10 April 2022, a no-confidence vote was conducted and he was ousted from office. | 15th | align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small | |
| 20 | File:Shehbaz Sharif (34929982354) (cropped).jpg | Shehbaz Sharif
میاں محمد شہباز شریف |
11 April 2022 | 14 August 2023 | Template:Ayd | — | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Shahbaz Sharif was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan after the successful no-confidence motion against Imran Khan. His nomination was supported by all joint opposition parties who voted to remove the previous prime minister from office. | align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small | ||
| (C) | Office vacant: Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar served as caretaker prime minister in the interim period. | |||||||||||
| (20) | File:Shehbaz Sharif 2023 (cropped).jpg | Shehbaz Sharif
میاں محمد شہباز شریف |
4 March 2024 | Incumbent | Template:Ayd | 2024 | style="background-color:Template:Party color" | | Pakistan Muslim League (N) | Highly controversial general elections were held on 8 February 2024. The elections were contested for rigging, and Shehbaz Sharif was again elected as prime minister with the support of the MQM-P, BAP, PMLQ, IPP, NP and PMLZ, as well as confidence and supply from Pakistan Peoples Party. | 16th | align="center" Template:Party shading/None |Template:Small | |
List of prime ministers by length of term
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