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  Pakistan Peoples Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) (Urdu: پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی) is a mainstream political party in Pakistan.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pakistan_People's_Party   (154 words)

  
 Pakistan Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ NaturalResearch.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Modern Pakistan is a federal republic, whose head of state is the Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army acting in the capacity of President of the republic.
Pakistan, a developing country, is the sixth most populous in the world and has faced a number of challenges on the political and economic fronts.
Pakistan's religious demographics have been significantly influenced by the movement of populations in 1947 (in which millions of Muslims moved to Pakistan and millions of Hindus and Sikhs moved to India) and the wars in Afghanistan (resulting in millions of refugees who have become permanent residents).
www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Pakistan   (5976 words)

  
 Pakistan Peoples Party
PPP urges Commonwealth to exert pressure on the military regime for restoration of democracy in Pakistan
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) was launched at its founding convention held in Lahore on November 30 - December 01, 1967.
The Party also promised the elimination of feudalism in accordance with the established principles of socialism to protect and advance the interests of peasantry.
www.ppp.org.pk   (255 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Pakistan [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pakistan's two largest mainstream parties are the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (supported by the military establishment of Pakistan), which obtained a plurality in the October 2002 elections.
Pakistan's economy, once thought to be highly vulnerable to external and internal shocks, was unexpectedly resilient in the face of adverse events such as the Asian financial crisis, global recession, drought, the post-9/11 military action in Afghanistan, and military tensions with India.
Urdu is the lingua franca of the people.
encyclozine.com /Pakistan   (3570 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Top Stories: Killing in Karachi: Peoples Party Leader Assassinated
KARACHI: A stalwart of Pakistan Peoples Party, Munawwar Suharwardi was put to death by unknown assailants in the coastal city of Karachi Thursday.
Ms Bhutto said her party was in favour of holding dialogues with the authorities but this was not possible at present due to various obstacles to this effect.
The PPP chief said her party was always ready to participate in the general elections when ever these were held.
www.pakistantimes.net /2004/06/18/top.htm   (1859 words)

  
 Face to Face: Ms. Benazir Bhutto - Chairperson, Pakistan Peoples Party
PPP believes that mid term elections, which are widely predicted, should be held under the Pakistan Human Rights Commission.
People in Pakistan are proud of their armed forces and critical of the fat and waste.
I would like to convey to the Indian people that a new generation of Pakistanis to whom the torch of independence has passed, wish to renew the faith of its Founding Father in the importance of friendship between two great South Asian neighbours to the everlasting benefit of all the people of South Asia.
www.indiaonestop.com /face2face/bhutto.htm   (3061 words)

  
 Interview - Naheed Khan
The Pakistan Peoples Party functions as a democratic institution where instructions are issued and decisions are taken by the Chairperson after developing a consensus and in consultation with the Central Executive Committee, senior party colleagues and the federal council.
The procedure adopted by the party for theawards of tickets was transparent and involved the widest possible consultations of all structures of the party, starting from the tehsil, district, division, provincial and the federally formed parliamentary board.
What she and the party maintains is that it is a dispute that has defied solution for the past 53-54 years, and the world scenario is testament to the fact that such disputes require time for position's to soften and confidence to build.
www.newsline.com.pk /NewsOct2002/cover6.htm   (1190 words)

  
 People?s Party of Pakistan [PPP]
The Pakistan Peoples Party was launched at its founding convention held in Lahore on November 30 - December 01, 1967.
People’s Party of Pakistan [PPP] leader Benazir Bhutto is in self-exile in Dubai [and facing a corruption conviction], but still exerts enormous influence over the party.
Under the banner of the People’s Party of Pakistan Parliamentarian [PPPP], and the leadership of Makhdoom Amin Fahim, the PPPP to have strong support nationwide.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/pakistan/ppp.htm   (366 words)

  
 Labour Party Pakistan: Farooq Tariq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The two main left parties prior to the emergence of the LPP were the National Workers Party and the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, from a Stalinist tradition, who concluded that the military would succeed in purging corruption before installing a western-style democracy.
The PPP publicly backed the coup and Benazir Bhutto said she was willing to give the military dictatorship six months to bring politicians to account.
The Pakistan People's Party long held a reputation as the site of radical opposition, yet this is more due to opportunistic left posturing than to any genuine commitment to social progress.
www.movementsforsocialism.com /archive/pakistan.html   (3551 words)

  
 flag of Pakistan - Political flags flags
The ruling PPP of Benazir Bhutto uses a flag which incorporates the basic flag design (white inclined crescent and star on dark green), the same is true for the separatist faction of the PPP let by Mrs Bhutto's brother.
Flags of political parties throughout the sub-continent tend to be modified at the whim of the maker: crescents, stars, slogans, images of people, (usually the leader), etc., are all commonly displayed on them.
In 1987 the party won a majority of seats in Karachi, and, with 13 seats, became the third biggest party in the National Assembly in 1988.
www.flags-of-the-world.net /flags/pk}.html   (2818 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Top Stories: Benazir Reiterates One China Policy
Pakistan Peoples Party, Ms Benazir Bhutto has said that her party supports PRC in it's bid to promote national reconciliation between brothers in Taiwan and Mainland China without outside interference in the larger interest of peace and prosperity of the region and the world.
PPP pursues peaceful reunification of China as a cornerstone of it's China policy.
Pakistan Peoples Party, she said, supports PRC in it's bid to promote national reconciliation between brothers in Taiwan and Mainland China without outside interference in the larger interest of peace and prosperity of the region and the world.
www.pakistantimes.net /2004/03/22/top8.htm   (231 words)

  
 Pakistan has adequate oil reserves to meet any contingency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
She has submitted that first intra party elections were held on 2.8.2002 and the documents of the party were filed on 5.8.2002 in the Election Commission, which were found in conformity with the relevant provisions of the Political Parties Order, 2002 (hereinafter called the Order).
The Party submitted its documents on 14.11.2002 to the Election Commission in accordance with the provisions of the Order, which were found to be in conformity with the relevant provisions thereof.
M. Muhammad Raza Hayat Harraj submits that on 1st June, 2004, final Convention of both the parties was held at Islamabad, wherein the merger of the aforementioned both the parties was formalized and as a result of such merger, a new political party by the name of “Pakistan Peoples Party” came into existence.
www.infopak.gov.pk /news/appnews/appnews2004/app_june18_2004.htm   (6937 words)

  
 SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Federation of Pakistan (PLD 1988 SC 416) held that the Constitution of Pakistan envisages parliamentary democracy with a cabinet system based on party system as essentially it is composed of the representatives of a party, which is in majority and therefore the future election would be held on party basis.
This act of the Prime Minister was resented by the Pakistan Army and was construed as interference in the Army affairs and an attempt to politicize and destabilize it.
Consequently, the Pakistan Army took exception to the action of the Prime Minister and Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif was removed and General Pervez Musharraf, Chief of Army Staff took control of the affairs of the country.
www.scp.com.pk /sub_links/judgements/J3.htm   (2091 words)

  
 Pakistan Perspectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Labour Party Pakistan is opposing to the American intervention in the region.
Pakistan Peoples Party, the party of the Bhotto, s is now openly supported the stand of military regime to go for an all out help for the Americans.
PPP and ANP till 11th September were openly opposing the military regime and are part of Alliance For Restoration of Democracy (ARD).
www.labournet.net /world/0110/pakist1.html   (4072 words)

  
 news - Pakistan: Release Opposition Party Members   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
PPP supporters were arrested in order to prevent them from greeting Asif Zardari, PPP leader and husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, on his return from a trip to Dubai to meet his family.
PPP supporters who managed to reach the Lahore party headquarters near the airport and the airport itself were dragged away by the police.
The PPP had made it clear that the event was not a protest rally.
www.noticias.info /Archivo/2005/200504/20050419/20050419_59519.shtm   (754 words)

  
 Elections in Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pakistan (Urdu: پاکستان / Pakistan) is a country in Central Asia.
The region of Kashmir is controlled partially by India and partially by Pakistan.
Freedom House rated the country on political rights with a 6 and on civil rights with a 5, both on a scale of 1 to 7 (in which 1 is the most free).
www.electionworld.org /pakistan.htm   (311 words)

  
 rediff.com: Benazir nominates new leader for polls
Former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto on Monday backed out from a direct confrontation with President Pervez Musharraf by nominating a new leadership to head her Pakistan Peoples Party ahead of October 10 general elections.
The aim of PPP Parliamentarians is to build a progressive and democratic society in accordance with the principles, philosophies and politics of Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Quaid-e-Awam Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Quaid-e-Jamhooriyat Benazir Bhutto," a PPP release said.
The party maintained that Bhutto would remain a political guide of this new grouping although she would not hold an elective office in it.
www.rediff.com /news/2002/aug/05pak4.htm   (255 words)

  
 Pakistan Link Headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party has decided to invite applications from prospective candidates for the National and Provincial Assemblies in the elections proposed for October 2002.
Candidates applying now will be short listed by the Party for the respective constituencies for consideration by the Parliamentary Board of the Party and will not be required to pay any fee when final applications are invited after the delimitation of the constituencies has been announced, the statement added.
As a result the Party will be able to carry out an assessment of candidates well in time thus producing a parliamentary cadre committed to Federal, Parliamentary democracy, supremacy of the Constitution, sovereignty of Parliament and committed to the concept of good governance.
www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/Feb/27/09.html   (221 words)

  
 Labor Party Pakistan | May Day Optimism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
But Pakistan's trade unions are too weak and divided to build even a united national centre, let alone a party of their own.
The newly formed Pakistan Peoples Party's open support to the workers led to a whole new layer of working class and its leadership joining the party.
On the one hand, the trade union movement reached its 'peak' during this period: a record number of unions were registered, their memberships underwent an upsurge, the number of industrial actions went high and some pro-trade union reforms were introduced.
www.laborpakistan.org /articles/intl/maydayoptimism.php   (1248 words)

  
 PPP Demands Parliamentary Inquiry to Prevent Nuclear Scientists Becoming Scape Goats
"The Pakistan Peoples Party expresses alarm at the shocking disclosure by the Musharaf regime that Pakistan's policy of no export of nuclear technology was contravened.
Following the nuclear testing, concerned about potential international concerns, the Pakistan Peoples Party repeatedly called for a control and command system to be put into place that could allay the concerns of the international community.
The Party believes that those who endangered Pakistan's nuclear assets by following (adopting) wrong policies that permitted the violation of the Benazir doctrine of no export of nuclear technology, must be exposed and held accountable.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/pakistan/2003/pakistan-031224-ppp.htm   (724 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | National: Pakistan Peoples Party constitutes body to stop rigging
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian has constituted a special committee under the convenorship of Zumarad Khan MNA to monitor the upcoming local bodies polls in Rawalpindi district.
According to sources a party meeting was held here on Sunday in which senior leadership, members of assemblies and election board participated.
In the meeting senior party leader Ms Naheed Khan took serious notice about some complaints regarding breach of party discipline in some constituencies of Rawalpindi and instructed City President to take severe action against the elements who did not care about discipline.
www.pakistantimes.net /2005/08/22/national3.htm   (300 words)

  
 History of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto
While ensuring that her Party was not returned to power, the President and the Caretaker Prime Minister filed a series of references against Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.
The Pakistan Peoples Party went to the people in October, 1993 with a new "Agenda for Change".
The programme envisaged government at the door-step of the people and priority to the social sectors.
www.dubaippp.homestead.com /MBBhistory.html   (1571 words)

  
 Taliban''s fall will scale down militancy in Kashmir: Bhutto
Welcoming New Delhi''s initiative to resolve the Kashmir issue through dialogue, she said her Pakistan''s Peoples Party has welcomed freeing of some Kashmiri political prisoners, agreeing to a cease-fire as well as the plan to talk to the Kashmiri leaders.
She said that during her tenure as Prime Minister of Pakistan, non-Kashmiri groups were not allowed to seize the ''Kashmir movement'' from the Kashmiris.
''Pakistan is witnessing a sad decay of institutions due to repeated military interventions.
www.jammu-kashmir.com /archives/archives2001/kashmir20011209c.html   (362 words)

  
 Pakistan Peoples Party - PPP Exploring / Reporting Dhaandlies And Corruption dhaandli, dhandli, dhaandlian, election, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
KARACHI, July 25: Pakistan Peoples Party leaders Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Taj Haider, Nafees Siddiqui and Engineer Gianchand have said that Arbab Ghulam Rahim was victimizing the liberal and moderate candidates contesting elections as Awam Dost Group and demanded a thorough probe into his alleged links with Al-Qaeda and Taliban elements.
KARACHI, July 22: Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, PPP MNAs Nawab Yousuf Talpur, Mir Aijaz Jakhrani, and MPA Jam Saifullah Dharejo have said that the democratic and liberal majority of the people was being excluded from the process of local bodies election under a conspiracy.
MNAs belong to the PPP have termed the address to the nation by General Pervez Musharraf as a public relation exercise aimed at the west.
www.dhaandli.com   (1495 words)

  
 Pakistan Link - Letter & Opinion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The political parties of Pakistan, who had been ditched and manipulated too often by the Army, are still wary of these promises.
The Pakistan Peoples Party has taken strong notice of this meeting and the Chairperson Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto has duly informed the Chief Election Commissioner about this meeting.
In her letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, the Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples party protested that such kind of “personal lobbying violates the solemn commitment made by the General before the Supreme Court of Pakistan to hold fair elections.
www.pakistanlink.com /Opinion/2002/Sept/06/06.html   (259 words)

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