Preparing a constitution for the country was the first achievement of Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto after coming to power. The most important feature of this Constitution was to accommodate the proposals of the opposition parties and therefore it is accepted by almost all the major political parties of the country. April 10, 1973 was the date the National Assembly approved the 1973 Constitution, and it came into force on August 14. Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan from this date and Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry is appointed President of Pakistan. The 1973 Constitution opens with a Preamble. This is the preliminary part of the Constitution in which the main features of the Constitution have been explained. The first article declares Pakistan as a federal republic known as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Islam was declared the state religion of Pakistan. Pakistan was to be a Federation of four federated Units, Punjab, Sindh, NWFP and Baluchistan. The nature of the Constitution was parliamentary. Article 41 of the Constitution provides that the President is the Head of State. The president had to be a Muslim over the age of 45 and had to be elected by a joint sitting of members of Parliament for 5 years. He could be re-elected but could not remain in office for more than two terms. The President should have acted on the advice of the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The president could be removed for physical or mental incapacity or impeached on charges of violating the Constitution or gross misconduct. The president was authorized to appoint the attorney general, judges of the Supreme Court and high courts, and chief election commissioners. In the Pr...... at the center of the paper ......Islam. The Islamic Advisory Council was mandated to recommend ways and means to bring the country's existing laws into conformity with Islamic principles. The 1973 Constitution remained in force for almost four years. It was, however, suspended by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who imposed martial law in the country on 5 July 1979. However, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who ruled the country under martial law, approved the eighth amendment in the Constitution in 1985. This amendment gave the President the power to dissolve the National Assembly under Article 58(2) b. This article was later repealed by Parliament during the Nawaz Sharif era by the Thirteenth Amendment introduced on 1 April 1997. The Thirteenth Amendment was in turn repealed by the Legal Framework Order of 2002, which effectively restored the discretionary powers of the President enacted by the Eighth Amendment.