Pakistan Reaches Democracy Milestone Amid Economy-Security Woes
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Pakistan’s government became the first democratically elected administration in the nation’s 65 years of independence to serve a full five-year term, a landmark marred by a struggling economy and rising sectarian violence.
In a televised speech to the nation late on March 16, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf said the Pakistan Peoples Party-led government had overcome all threats, drawing a line under a past punctured by military coups. Ashraf remains in office until a caretaker premier is appointed to govern in the runup to a general election scheduled for May.