Current Affair Test 02

✅The Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2018 was:

Justice (R) Nasirul Mulk

📘 Key Details:

🔹 Name Nasirul Mulk
   ✅ Tenure Start  1 June 2018
   ✅Tenure End   17 August 2018
   ✅ Background   Former Chief Justice of Pakistan
   ✅Purpose   Oversaw general elections held on 25 July 2018
   ✅Appointed by   Consensus between PML-N and PTI

✅ List of Caretaker Prime Ministers of Pakistan

# Name Tenure Start Tenure End Appointed Under
  1️⃣   Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi   (6 Aug 1990 - 6 Nov 1990)   After dismissal of Benazir govt
  2️⃣   Mir Balakh Sher Mazari (18 Apr 1993 - 26 May 1993)   After dismissal of Nawaz Sharif
  3️⃣   Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi (18 Jul 1993 - 19 Oct 1993)   Following Mazari’s removal
  4️⃣   Malik Meraj Khalid (5 Nov 1996 - 17 Feb 1997) After Benazir govt dismissal
  5️⃣   Muhammad Mian Soomro  (16 Nov 2007  - 25 Mar 2008)  After Shaukat Aziz era (Musharraf)
  6️⃣   Mir Hazar Khan Khoso  (25 Mar 2013 - 5 Jun 2013) Appointed by ECP
  7️⃣   Nasirul Mulk (1 Jun 2018 -17 Aug 2018) Appointed by mutual consensus
  8️⃣   Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar(14 Aug 2023-11 Mar 2024) Appointed for 2024 elections

 ✅ BONUS Tip:

Group by decades to recall easily:

1️⃣1990s → Jatoi, Mazari, Qureshi, Meraj

2️⃣2000s → Soomro

3️⃣2010s–2020s → Khoso, Mulk, Kakar.

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