Pakistan Peoples Party

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) (Urdu: پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی ) is a mainstream political party in Pakistan. It is led by "life chairperson" Benazir Bhutto. The Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) is a party formed in 2002 by the PPP for the purpose of complying with electoral rules governing Pakistani parties. At the last legislative elections, 20 october 2002, the party won 25.8 % of the popular vote and 71 out of 272 elected members, thus gaining the second-largest number of seats in the Parliament of Pakistan.

The party was founded in 1967, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became its first chairman. The party creed is: "Islam is our faith; democracy is our politics; socialism is our economy; all power to the people."The Pakistan People's Party is considerably more liberal than other political parties in Pakistan and is known to fight for such issues as women's rights and the rights of the poor and the oppressed. That liberalism is partly a consequence of the fact that the party's leadership is considerably more educated than that of other mainstream parties, with some of its members educated at instituions including Harvard University, Oxford University, and University of California at Berkeley.

Although its center of gravity lies in the southern province of Sindh where it has the support of an overwhelming majority of people, it also has considerable support in the more densely populated province of Punjab.

See also

*President of Pakistan
*Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
*Benazir Bhutto
*Nusrat Bhutto

External links

*Official site

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