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the face of the earth who fought a most gruesome
battle to achieve a democratic constitution. India
and Pakistan though born on (15th and 14th August 1947
respectively) pursued diagonally opposite political
course to run their countries. Within less than two
years
India
whereas,
adopted
Pakistan
its
constitution
adopted
its
first
in
1949,
constitution
after nine years of its independence in 1956. And
this nine years were full of political treachery,
horse-trading,
usurping
sitting
at
the
killing
of
Prime
top
of
power
the
Minister,
by
the
individuals
political
hierarchy,
arbitrarily
dissolving
Constituent Assembly so on and so forth. But this was
not the end there. From 1947 to 1971 Pakistan adopted
two
constitutions,
two
Martial
Laws,
a
peculiar
political system called basic democracy and ruled by
treacherous and ruthless rulers like Iskandar Mirza,
Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan. In addition to a malignant
political regime in Pakistan as stated above, that
system
was
also
extremely
oppressive,
there
were
inhuman economic disparity in the two wings of the
country, rampant abuse of power by the law and order