What is Senate?

 

    

After independence, Pakistan's first Constituent Assembly, elected in December 1947 after partition, was given the task of drafting the Constitution of Pakistan. This Assembly passed the Objectives Resolution on March 12, 1949, establishing principles that later became a substantive part of the Constitution of Pakistan.

 However, before it could accomplish the task of drafting the constitution, it was dissolved in October 1954. Subsequently, the Governor General convened the Second Constituent Assembly in May 1955, which drafted and approved the first Constitution of Pakistan on 29 February. 1956. That Constitution was promulgated on March 23, 1956 and provided for a parliamentary form of government with a unicameral legislature. However, from August 14, 1947 to March 1, 1956, the Government of India Act, 1935 remained the Constitution of Pakistan.

What is Senate?