<P> Pakistan was founded in 1947 . Before writing a constitution, a Constituent Assembly passed the Objectives Resolution, on the insistence of the ulama and Jamaat - e-Islami, in March 1949 to define the basic directive principles of the new state and to declare state recognition of the sovereignty of Allah over the universe . The Objectives Resolution affirmed the role of democracy and contained religious provisions to enable society to adhere to the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah . The Objectives Resolution has henceforth been inserted as a preamble into each of Pakistan's subsequent constitutions . </P> <P> The country's first constitution was approved in 1956 but abrogated in 1958 after a military Coup d'état . Pakistan's second constitution was approved in 1962 . It granted executive power to the president and abolished the office of the prime minister . It also institutionalised the intervention of military in politics by providing that for twenty years, the president or the defence minister must be a person who had held a rank not lower than that of lieutenant - general in the army . The 1962 constitution was suspended in 1969 and abrogated in 1972 . </P> <P> The 1973 constitution was the first in Pakistan to be framed by elected representatives . Unlike the 1962 constitution it gave Pakistan a parliamentary democracy with executive power concentrated in the office of the prime minister, and the formal head of state--the president--limited to acting on the advice of the prime minister . </P> <P> The Constitution states that all laws are to conform with the injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Quran and Sunnah . The 1973 Constitution also created certain institutions such as the Shariat Court and the Council of Islamic Ideology to channel the interpretation and application of Islam . </P>

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