Ayub Khan Era

During the period of Ayub Khan, the first election under the Constitution were on a non-party basis. However, political parties were revived in 1962 and in the second elections which were held in the December 1964, January 1965, the Combined Opposition Parties (COP) put up Miss Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the founder of Nation, as their joint Presidential candidate.

The main demand of COP was that direct elections should be substituted for indirect elections. Although Ayub Khan won the elections it was a disputed result as the votes of many basic democrats had been manipulated by carrot and stick.

After the 1965 war with India a strong sense of defenselessness and deprivation took deeper roots in East Pakistan. The Six Points Programme demanded a new Constitution of a co federal type and not the restitution of the 1956 Federal Constitution.

 

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