Article 58(2)(b) famously enabled repeated presidential dissolution of the National Assembly and entered the 1973 text mainly through which amendment cycle associated with militarised executive politics after 1977?
Q1. Article 58(2)(b) famously enabled repeated presidential dissolution of the National Assembly and entered the 1973 text mainly through which amendment cycle associated with militarised executive politics after 1977?
Answer: The Eighth Constitutional Amendment
Explanation: Article 58(2)(b), which empowered the President to dissolve the National Assembly at discretion, was inserted into the 1973 Constitution through the Eighth Constitutional Amendment passed in 1985 under General Zia-ul-Haq, converting the parliamentary system toward a semi-presidential model. It was later repealed by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1997 under Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.