Pakistan Peoples Party

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Pakistan Peoples Party
پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی
Leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1967-79)
Nusrat Bhutto (1979-84)
Benazir Bhutto (1984-2007)
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (2007-Present)
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Asif Ali Zardari (Co-Chairman & Chairman of the CEC)
President Ameen Faheem
Secretary-General Jahangir Badar
Founded November 30, 1967 (1967-11-30)
Headquarters Bilawal House
70 Clifton
Central Secretariat
Parliament Lodges at Islamabad, Pakistan
Student wing Peoples Students Federation (PSF)
Ideology Basic needs
Food
Clothing
Shelter
Official colors Red, Green & Black
Seats in National Assembly
121 / 339
Seats in Senate
27 / 100
Election symbol
Arrow
Website
Official website
Party flag
Flag of PPP.png
Benazir Bhutto, former chairperson
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The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) (Urdu: پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی), is a center-left, democratic socialist political party in Pakistan affiliated with Socialist International. Pakistan People's Party is the largest political party of Pakistan. Its leader has always been a member of the Bhutto-Zardari family.

Although its center lies in the southern province of Sindh, it also has considerable support in the more densely populated province of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. The party has been elected to power four times since its formation.[1]

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[edit] Founding

The party was launched at its founding convention on 30 November 1967 in Lahore.[2][3] Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was elected its first chairman by participants.[2][3] The party manifesto, first issued on 9 December 1967 is: "Islam is our religion; democracy is our politics; socialism is our economy; power lies with the people."[2]

[edit] Notable leaders

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was the founder and first chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party. His wife, Nusrat Bhutto, succeeded him as chairperson and held the position[4] into the 1980s. In 1982, Nusrat Bhutto, ill with cancer, was given permission to leave Pakistan for medical treatment and remained abroad for several years. At that point her daughter, Benazir Bhutto, became acting head of the party while Nusrat technically remained its chairman[5] and was referred to as such as late as September 1983.[6] By January 1984, Benazir was being referred to as the party's chairman.[7] She had been elected chairperson for life,[8] and as such was chair until her assassination on 27 December 2007. Her nineteen-year old son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his father Asif Ali Zardari were appointed party co-chairmen after assassination of Benazir Bhutto on 30 December 2007.[9]

[edit] Party structure

The Party is structured from municipal unit levels up to the federal level. The Central Executive Committee of the Party is the supreme body that sets out the strategy for the party. The CEC is headed by the Chairman / Co-Chairman and includes all the major office bearers of the party.

[edit] General Elections 2008

After the assassination of PPP leader Benazir Bhutto on 27 December 2007, the 2008 General Elections which were scheduled to be held in January were postponed until 18 February. The PPP won the highest number of seats among all political parties, gaining a total general seats 93 from all provinces in the National Parliament.[10] Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari said that "Pakistan was on its way of ridding dictatorships forever", and appealed to the Pakistan Muslim League (N) leader, former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to form a coalition controlling over half the seats in Pakistan's 342 seat parliament.

On 9 March 2008 in a press conference held in Muree, Punjab, PML-N Leader Nawaz Sharif and PPP Co-Leader Asif Ali Zardari officially signed an agreement to form a coalition government. Titled the PPP-PML summit declaration, the joint declaration both parties agreed on the reinstatement of judges deposed during the emergency rule imposed on 3 November 2007 by Pervez Musharraf within 30 days after the new federal government was formed.[10]. However, this treaty was later on was violated by PPP government, after which PML(N) withdrew from collation and federal government.

[edit] Presidential election 2008

PPP candidate Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, won Pakistan’s presidential elections on September 5, 2008.[11]


Chairs
  1. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1967–1979)
  2. Nusrat Bhutto (1979–1984)
  3. Benazir Bhutto (1984–2007)
  4. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (2007–Present)
  5. Asif Ali Zardari (2007–Present) Co-Chairman, and Chairman of the Central Executive Committee
Major Office Bearers (Current)
Other Leaders
Abdul Qadir Patel (left) With former chairperson Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto

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Basit Jehangir Sheikh (left) With President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari.

[edit] Internal Opposition to Zardari

In December 2011 senior membres such as Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Malik Khurram Ali Khan left PPP, saying they did not agree with how Zardari was leading the party particularly with regards to an alliance with PMLQ and foreign policy . Zulfiqar Mirza the former interior minister of Sindh also resigned as minister because of Zardari's leadership and policies in regard to dealings with MQM. They all felt the party had now moved away from the original ideas it was founded on by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto [13]

[edit] See also

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[edit] References

  1. ^ "Pakistan Peoples Party". Ppp.org.pk. http://www.ppp.org.pk/history.html. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 
  2. ^ a b c PPP USA. Retrieved 03 August 2010.
  3. ^ a b People's Party of Pakistan. Retrieved 03 August 2010.
  4. ^ Reuters, "Pakistan rally halted before march begins", The Globe and Mail, 29 August 1983
  5. ^ Hall, Carla, "The April of Her Freedom Five Years Later, Benazir Bhutto's Plea for Pakistan", The Washington Post, 4 April 1984
  6. ^ "Mrs. Bhutto Asks Army To Overthrow Zia", The New York Times, 27 September 1983
  7. ^ "Miss Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of the former Prime Minister, Zulfikar Bhutto, and chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party has been released from detention and has gone to Paris to be with her cancer-stricken mother", Financial Times, 11 January 1984
  8. ^ Rohde, David (2007-12-28). "Musharraf’s Political Future Appears Troubled". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/world/asia/28assess.html. Retrieved 2010-08-06. 
  9. ^ "Bhutto's son, husband to be co-leaders of party". Reuters. 30 December 2007. http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-31174520071230. Retrieved 2007-12-30. 
  10. ^ a b [http://www.ecp.gov.pk/GE2008.aspx.
  11. ^ Farhan Bokhari (February 6, 2008). "Zardari wins Pakistan’s presidency". Financial Times. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e5eadf66-7bf7-11dd-a25c-000077b07658.html. 
  12. ^ Founder Member of Pakistan Peoples Party
  13. ^ http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C12%5C10%5Cstory_10-12-2011_pg7_7

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