PAKISTAN PEOPLES PARTY
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is the most popular and one of the strongest political and center-left political party of Pakistan politics, PPP is associated with the Socialist International. Current chairman of PPP is Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Co-chairman is Asif Ali Zardari. PPP was established in 1967 and founder of PPP is Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who not only founded PPP but also he was the first chairman of PPP. The basic creed of PPP is "Islam is our faith", democracy is our politics, and socialism is our economy and all power to the people. PPP is basically centered in the Sindh but it is also considerably supported by the other provinces of Pakistan.
Famous Leaders
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto: who not only founded the PPP but also he was the first chairman of PPP, Nusrat Bhutto who is the wife of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto assisted Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as a co-chairman, later on Nusrat Bhutto fell ill and diagnosed as a cancer patient so she left Pakistan for the medical treatment. After Nusrat Bhutto illness her daughter took over the power of chairman as a co-chairman with Nusrat Bhutto. Officially Benazir Bhutto became the chairman in the year 1984. In the year 2007, Benazir Bhutto killed in an assassination and then according to her will her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari was declared as a chairman of PPP and her husband Asif Ali Zardari took over PPP as a co-chairman until BIlawal Bhutto Zardari completes his education. The chairpersons of PPP since its foundation till yet are as follows:
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (1967-1979)
Nusrat Bhutto (1979-1984)
Benazir Bhutto (1984-2007)
Bilawal Bhutto, Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Zardari Asif Ali Zardari (2007-current)
Notable PPP members
Makhdoom Amin Chairmain (vice chairman)
Yousuf Raza Gillani (vice chairman)
Jahnagir Badar (Senator, Secretary General)
Raza Rabbani (Senator, Deputy Secretary General)
Sherry Rehman (Information Secretary)
Farhat ullah Babar (Deputy Information Secretary)
Babar Awan (Finance Secretary)
Malik Amjad Ali Noon (Chairman prime minister inspection commission of Pakistan)
Faisal Karim Kundi
Rehman Malik
Farooq H. Naik
Aftab Shaban Mirani
Shah Mehmood Qureshi (President PPP Punjab)
Sardar Faraz Wahlah (President PPP Youth Punjab)
Ahmad Mukhtar
Aitzaz Ahsan
Qaim Ali Shah (President PPP Sindh)
Naveed Qamar
Muhammad Khan Soomro Late (Former- MNA)
Syed Khursheed Shah
Fahmida Mirza
Samina Khalid Ghurki
Raja Pervez Ashraf
Qamar Zaman Kaira
Dr. Abdul Wahid Soomro (MNA) (Former-provincial minister
Zahir Ali Shah (President PPP NW&FP)
Aslam Raisani (CM of Balochistan Assembly)
Nawabzada Lashkari Raisani (President PPP Balochistan)
Raheel Dad Malik (Acting Web Publicator)
Sana ullah Soomro (Active Student Politician)
Mehdi Amersy (Information Secretary for London (East) UK
2008 Elections
General elections were decided to hold in the year 2008 but because of the assassination of chairman of PPP Benazir Bhutto, who was the popular leader of Pakistan, elections were postponed and decided to be held in February instead of January. PPP got most seats in National parliament. Asif Ali Zardari was declared as the president of Pakistan. PML (N) and PPP signed a coalition and it was decided that PML (N) would run government in Punjab and PPP in Sindh and Balochistan, while ANP in NW&FP. According to the coalition both chairpersons i.e. Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari signed agreement to revitalize judiciary in Pakistan, it was also decided to force Pervez Musharaf to left the office of President of Pakistan. PPP backed out from its agreement and failed to fulfill its duties such as people of Pakistan expected a lot from the democratic government but all expectations ended in smoke, PPP denied revitalizing Pakistan judiciary, failed to provide basic facilities to Pakistani people. Currently PPP is putting up very strong pressure from its opposition PML (N) who broke the coalition due to the refusal of PPP for revitalizing judiciary.
