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Pakistan will become a Republic with an American style of Government by August 14 - the eighth anniversary of Pakistan's independence - a senior Government official said in Karachi on February 6. He said the change from the traditional British parliamentary system to the American pattern was "in the interests of stability" and "more in keeping with Islamic traditions." Under the American system, the Chief Executive and his advisers have a fixed tenure of office and are not dependent on the "precarious support of parliamentary groups." The spokesman said the Government had almost completed plans for a federation of two autonomous States - East and West Pakistan, with the President as Head of the State. The President would be assisted by a Council of Ministers appointed by him, enjoying wide powers and not responsible to the Legislature. Plans for the Republic would be finally decided at a Constitution convention convened by the Governor-General, Mr. Ghulam Mohammed, in about three or four months, the spokesman added. Meanwhile, according to a report published in the Dawn, Lahore will be declared the temporary capital of the proposed province of West Pakistan some time next week. Lahore will continue to be the capital for the first ten years of the coming into being of the one-unit Government, by which time a decision on the site or location of a permanent capital would have been made.
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