The Constitution of Pakistan, 1973 Developed by Zain Sheikh

1. The Republic and its territories.—(1) Pakistan shall be a Federal Republic to be known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, hereinafter referred to as Pakistan.

         ¹[(2)  The territories of Pakistan shall comprise—]

        (a)  the Provinces of ²[Balochistan], the ²[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa], the Punjab and ²[Sindh];

       (b)   the Islamabad Capital Territory, hereinafter referred to as the Federal Capital; ³[and]

         ³[(c)] Omitted.

         ³[(c)] such States and territories as are or may be included in Pakistan, whether by accession or otherwise.

          ¹[(3)] Omitted.

         ¹[(3) ³[Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament)] may by law admit into the Federation new States or areas on such terms and conditions as it thinks fit.]

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Footnotes:

1. Section 2 of the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1974 (33 of 1974) substituted the said words in clause (2) of Art. 1, (w.e.f. May 4, 1974), in place of the words and colon “The Constitution shall apply to the following territories of Pakistan :“ and omitted clause (3) of Art. 1. The deleted clause (3), adopted in 1973, read:

            (3)  The Constitution shall be appropriately amended so as to enable the people of the Province of East Pakistan, as and when foreign aggression in that Province and its effects are eliminated, to be represented in the affairs of the Federation.

                Section 2 of the Constitution (First Amendment) Act, 1974 (33 of 1974), also renumbered clause (4) as clause (3) of Art. 1, (w.e.f. May 4, 1974).

2. Section 3 of the Constitution (Eighteenth Amendment) Act, 2010 (10 of 2010), substituted the said words, in place of the words, “Baluchistan”, “North West Frontier” and “Sind”, in paragraph (a) of clause (1) of Art. 1, (w.e.f. April 19, 2010).

3. Section 2(i)&(ii) of the Constitution (Twenty-fifth Amendment) Act, 2018 (XXXVII of 2018) inserted the said word, (w.e.f. June 4, 2018), after the semi colon, at the end of paragraph (b) of clause 2 and omitted paragraph (c) thereof of Art. 1.  The deleted paragraph (c), adopted in 1973, read:

    (c)  the Federally Administered Tribal Areas; and.

                Section 2(iii) of the Constitution (Twenty-first Amendment) Act, 2018 (XXXVII of 2018), also renumbered paragraph (d) as paragraph (c) of clause (2) of Art. 1, (w.e.f. June 4, 2018).

                3.  Item 1 of the Schedule to the Revival of the Constitution of 1973 Order, 1985, Presidents Order No. 14 of 1985 (hereinafter referred to as RCO (P.O. No. 14 of 1985)), substituted the words and brackets “Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament)”, in place of the word “Parliament” in clause 3 of Art. 1 and wherever it appears in the succeeding provisions of the Constitution, (w.e.f. March 2, 1985).

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