Like a tailender in cricket making a century, Pakistan has made history when for first time in sixty six years, it has made a change of government through ballot. It has had nearly thirty two years of military rule: it abolished the post of the prime minister for many years, five times, which was for nearly twenty four years. It has had nearly twenty prime ministers including the caretaker prime ministers and none completed the full term. Yousuf Raza Gilani might have broken all these records if the Supreme Court of Pakistan had not forced him to resign and would have beaten the record of Liaquat Ali Khan as the longest serving prime minister of Pakistan.

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