Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: Ƙaddamar da Ƙungiyar Pakistan, wanda ya nemi gida ga Musulmai na Birtaniya Indiya, da kuma nasarar da aka samu a zaben a shekarar 1946 ta kungiyar All-India Muslim League, Pakistan ta sami 'yancin kai a shekarar 1947 bayan da aka raba mulkin Birtaniya na Birtaniya, wanda ya ba da matsayi na musamman ga yankunan musulmi da yawa kuma ya kasance tare da gudun hijira mai yawa da rashin hasara. Da farko Dominion na Commonwealth na Burtaniya, Pakistan a hukumance ta tsara kundin tsarin mulkinta a 1956, kuma ta fito a matsayin jamhuriya ta Musulunci da aka ayyana. A shekara ta 1971, yankin gabashin Pakistan ya rabu a matsayin sabuwar kasar Bangladesh bayan wani
watanni tara na yakin basasa. A cikin shekaru arba'in da suka biyo baya, gwamnatocin Pakistan sun mallaki gwamnatocin da aka kwatanta, kodayake suna da rikitarwa, yawanci suna canzawa tsakanin farar hula da sojoji, dimokiradiyya da masu iko, masu ra'ayin mazan jiya da Islama. Pakistan ta zabi gwamnatin farar hula a shekarar 2008, kuma a shekarar 2010 ta dauki tsarin majalisar dokoki tare da zaben lokaci-lokaci.