Prime Ministers of Pakistan (Complete List)

Liaquat Ali Khan (1896–1951)

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Took office: 14 August 1947
Left office: 16 October 1951(Assassinated)
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Muslim League
Total Duration: 4 Years, 2 Months, 2 Days

Achievements / Major events

Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and Balochistan conflict: faced a war with India on Kashmir conflict in 1947–48 and the Balochistan conflict.
Five-year plan: initiated science and technology, development of educational infrastructure, and economic policies
Objectives Resolution: presented a prelude to future constitutions in the Constituent Assembly

Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894–1964)

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Took office: 17 October 1951
Left office: 17 April 1953
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Muslim League
Total Duration: 01 Years 4 months.

Achievements / Major events

Nazimuddin became Prime Minister of Pakistan after the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951. The Bengali Language Movement, a political movement, rose in East Bengal during his term.

Muhammad Ali Bogra (1909–1963)

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Took office: 17 April 1953
Left office: 12 August 1955
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Muslim League
Total Duration: 2 Years, 2 Months, 26 Days.

Achievements / Major events

M.Ali Bogra replaced Khwaja Nazimuddin as a Prime Minister. He introduced a form of constitution, bicameral legislature, known as “Bogra Formula

Chaudhry Muhammad Ali (1905–1980)

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Took office: 12 August 1955
Left office: 12 September 1956
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Muslim League
Total Duration: 1 Year, 1 Month exactly

Achievements / Major events

Chaudary Muhammad Ali merged the four provinces of West Pakistan into One Unit. His greatest achievement was the formation of a new constitution for Pakistan.

Hussain Shaheed Suharwardi (1892–1963)

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Took office: 12 September 1956
Left office: 17 October 1957
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Awami League
Total Duration: 1 Year, 1 Month 5 days.

Achievements / Major events

Suhrawardy established the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission

Ibrahim Ismail Chundrigar (1898–1968)

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Took office: 17 October 1957
Left office: 16 December 1957
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Muslim League
Total Duration: 1 Month, 29 Days

Achievements / Major events

Chundrigar was appointed by Iskander Mirza after the resignation of Suhrawardy.

Sir Feroz Khan Noon (1893–1970)

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Took office: 16 December 1957
Left office: 7 October 1958
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Republican Party
Total Duration: 9 Months, 21 Days

Achievements / Major events

Feroz Khan Noon was elected as the seventh Prime Minister of Pakistan. He was dismissed during the 1958 Pakistani coup d’état .
Post of Prime Minister was abolished (7 October 1958–7 December 1971)
Total Duration of Abolishment: 13 Years, 2 Months exactly

Noor-ul-Amin (1893–1974)

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Took office: 7 December 1971
Left office: 20 December 1971
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan Muslim League
Total Duration: 13 Days Only

Achievements / Major events

Nurul Amin was appointed by Yahya Khan as the eighth Prime Minister of Pakistan, he was also the first and the only Vice President of Pakistan from 1970 till 1972, leading Pakistan in Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Post of Prime Minister was abolished (20 December 1971–14 August 1973)
Total Duration of Abolishment: 1 Year, 7 Months, 25 Days

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (1928–1979)

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Took office: 14 August 1973
Left office: 5 July 1977
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan People’s Party
Total Duration: 3 Years, 10 Months, 21 Days

Achievements / Major events

The founder of Pakistan’s atomic bomb programme and Father of Nuclear deterrence programme. He made the constitution of Pakistan in 1973, introduced land and agriculture reforms, and socialist economics policies. He was deposed in the 1977 Pakistani coup d’état by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in July 1977.
Post of Prime Minister was abolished (5 July 1977–24 March 1985)
Total Duration of Abolishment: 7 Years, 8 Months, 19 Days

Muhammad Khan Junejo (1932–1993)

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Took office: 24 March 1985
Left office: 29 May 1988
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Independent; Pakistan Muslim League
Total Duration: 3 Years, 2 Months, 5 Days

Achievements / Major events

Junejo was elected as also tenth Prime Minister of Pakistan in non-party based elections in 1985
Post of Prime Minister was abolished (29 May 1988 – 2 December 1988)
Total Duration of Abolishment: 6 Months, 3 Days

Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007)

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Took office: 2 December 1988
Left office: 6 August 1990
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan People’s Party
Total Duration: 1 Year, 8 Months, 4 Days

Achievements / Major events

Benazir Bhutto became the first woman in Pakistan to head a major political party, in 1988. Six years later, she became the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state.

Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi (1931–2009)

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Took office: 6 August 1990
Left office: 6 November 1990
Status: Caretaker/Acting
Political Party: None
Total Duration: 3 Months exactly

Nawaz Sharif (Born 1949)

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Took office: 6 November 1990
Left office: 18 April 1993
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan Muslim League (N), Islami Jamhoori Ittehad *changed later
Total Duration: 2 Years, 5 Months, 12 Days

Achievements / Major events

Nawaz Sharif was elected as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan on 6 November 1990. Sharif launched privatization and economic liberalization to elevate the national economy, and strengthened the private-sector of the country.

Balakh Sher Mazari (Born 1928)

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Took office: 18 April 1993
Left office: 26 May 1993
Status: Caretaker/Acting
Political Party: None
Total Duration: 1 Month, 8 Days

Nawaz’s Second Term:

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Took office: 26 May 1993
Left office: 18 July 1993
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Elected democratically
Total Duration: 1 Month, 22 Days

Achievements / Major events

Sharif survived a serious constitutional crisis when President Khan attempted to dismiss him under the article 58-2b, in April 1993, but he successfully challenged the decision in the Supreme Court. Sharif resigned from the post negotiating a settlement that resulted in the removal of President as well, in July 1993.

Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi (Born 1930)

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Took office: 18 July 1993
Left office: 19 October 1993
Status: Caretaker/Acting
Political Party: None
Total Duration: 3 Months, 1 Day exactly

Benazir Bhutto’s Second Term:

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Took office: 19 October 1993
Left office: 5 November 1996
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan People’s Party
Total Duration: 3 Years, 17 Days

Achievements / Major events

Bhutto was re-elected for a second term, in 1993. She survived an attempted coup d’état in 1995, and rigor and authoritative actions earned her the nickname “Iron Lady” of the country

Malik Meraj Khalid (1916–2003)

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Took office: 5 November 1996
Left office: 17 February 1997
Status: Caretaker/Acting
Political Party: None
Total Duration: 3 Months, 12 Days

Nawaz’s Third Term:

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Took office: 17 February 1997
Left office: 12 October 1999
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan Muslim League(N)
Total Duration: 2 Years, 7 Months, 23 Days

Achievements / Major events

Sharif was re-elected as Prime Minister the heavy mandate from all over the Pakistan for a non-consecutive second term, in February 1997. He notably ordered Pakistan’s first nuclear tests in response to India’s second nuclear tests, in May 1998. Sharif’s Government was overthrown by General Pervez Musharraf in October 1999, and the Martial law was imposed in the entire country.
Post of Prime Minister was abolished (12 October 1999 – 20 November 2002)
Total Duration of Abolishment: 3 Years, 1 Month, 8 Days

Zafarullah Khan Jamali (Born 1944)

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Took office: 21 November 2002
Left office: 26 June 2004
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
Total Duration: 1 Year, 7 Months, 5 Days

Achievements / Major events

Zafarullah 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.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain (Born 1946)

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Took office: 30 June 2004
Left office: 20 August 2004
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
Total Duration: 1 Month, 21 Days

Achievements / Major events

Shujaat was elected as a Prime Minister after the resignation of Jamali in June 2004.

Shaukat Aziz (Born 1949)

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Took office: 20 August 2004
Left office: 16 November 2007
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan Muslim League (Q)
Total Duration: 3 Years, 2 Months, 27 Days

Achievements / Major events

Shaukat Aziz took the office of Prime Minister of Pakistan in August 2004. He survived an assassination attempt in the small town of Fateh Jang, in the previous month. Aziz left the office at the end of the parliamentary term, in November 2007, and became the first Prime Minister of Pakistan who left seat after completion of parliamentary term.

Muhammad Mian Soomro (Born 1950)

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Took office: 16 November 2007
Left office: 25 March 2008
Status: Caretaker/Acting
Political Party: None
Total Duration: 4 Months, 9 Days

Yousaf Raza Gillani (Born 1952)

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Took office: 25 March 2008
Left office: 26 April 2012
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan People’s Party
Total Duration: 4 years and one month and one day

Achievements / Major events

Gillani was elected after in March 2008 after the elections. During his term, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry’s position was restored, after the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s long march. He was disqualified from his seat in the parliament in April 2012 by the Supreme Court for contempt of court.

Raja Pervaiz Ashraf

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Took office: 26 April 2012
Left office: Incumbent
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party: Pakistan People’s Party
Total Duration: none

Achievements / Major events

Raja Ashraf is the incumbent Prime Minister of Pakistan. He assumed the post in June 2012, after Yousaf Raza Gillani was disqualified by the Supreme Court over contempt of court charges.

Mir Hazar Khan Khoso

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Took office: 25 March 2013
Left office: 5 June 2013
Status:Caretaker/Acting
Political Party:Independent
Total Duration:2 Months and 10 Days

Nawaz’s Fourth Term

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Took office:5 June 2013
Left office: Incumbent
Status: Elected democratically
Political Party:Pakistan Muslim League (N)
Total Duration: None

Longest Time Served by a Prime Minister: Liaquat Ali Khan (4 Years, 2 Months, 2 Days)
Shortest Time Served by a Prime Minister: Nurul Amin (13 Days) during 1971 Bangladesh-Pakistan War
Total Duration of Democratic Prime Ministers: 30 Years, 51 Months, 254 Days or in aggregation 34 Years approximately.
Number of Times Prime Minister’s Post Abolished: 5 Times
Total Duration of the Post Abolishment: 24 Years, 24 Months, 53 Days or in aggregation 26 Years, 1 Month, 23 Days
Longest Post Abolishment Period: 13 Years, 2 Months during Zia-ul-Haq’s dictatorship
Shortest Post Abolishment Period: 6 Months, 3 Days after the death of Zia-ul-Haq
Number of Times Caretakers Came: 5 Times
Longest Time Served by a Caretaker: Muhammad Mian Soomro (4 Months, 9 Days)
Shortest Time Served by a Caretaker: Balakh Sher Mazari (1 Month, 8 Days)
Total Duration of Caretakers’ Terms: 14 Months, 30 Days or in aggregation 1 Year, 3 Months.

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