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PPP is an abbreviation for:

Law, business and economics[link]

• Purchasing power parity
• Polluter pays principle
• Personal pension scheme (Personal Pension Plan), a type of UK individual pension contract
• Public-private partnership, the operation of a service in the partnership of government and the private sector
• Plant Protection Product

Law enforcement[link]

• Philippine National Police, (Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas) the Filipino name of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the national police force of the Philippines
• Integrated National Police, (Pinagsamang Pulisyang Pambansa) the Filipino name of the Integrated National Police (INP), a defunct police force of the Philippines

Politics[link]

• Pakistan Peoples Party
  • Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao)
  • Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto)
• Palestinian People's Party
• Partai Persatuan Pembangunan (United Development Party), an Indonesian political party
• People's Party of Punjab (India)
• People's Power Party (Thailand)
• People's Political Power of Canada
• People's Party of Panama
• People's Progressive Party (disambiguation), a common name for a political party used in several countries:
  • People's Progressive Party (The Gambia)
  • People's Progressive Party (Guyana)
  • People's Progressive Party (Malaysia)
  • People's Progressive Party (Solomon Islands)
• Puebla-Panama Plan, (or Plan Puebla Panamá), an economic development and integration initiative in Mexico and Central America
• Polish Underground State (Polskie Państwo Podziemne), the Polish Underground State during World War II
• Polska Partia Pracy, the Polish Labour Party

Science and technology[link]

• Pariser-Parr-Pople method, an approximation in quantum chemistry
• Pentose phosphate pathway, a chemical process that generates five-carbon sugars
• Photodermatology, Photoimmunology and Photomedicine, a medical journal
• Poly(p-phenylene), a conductive polymer
• Precise Point Positioning, a GPS data processing technique

Medicine[link]

• Pearly penile papules, a condition that occurs on male genitalia
• Pustulosis palmaris et plantaris

Computing[link]

• Point-to-Point Protocol, a data link protocol that is normally used to provide data link layer services on top of links that do not have built-in data link layer services like modem connections, T-carrier connections like T1 and T3 lines, E-carrier connections like E1 and E3 lines, and SONET and SDH connections like OC-3, STM-1, and higher bit rate optical connections
• PowerPoint Presentation, a file created using the Microsoft Office application
• Pay per play, a type of internet advertising using audio ads
• Public Private Protected, in object oriented programming
• PPP (complexity), a computational complexity class

Film[link]

• Princess Protection Program

Music[link]

• (ppp), the dynamic marking for a note played extremely quietly. Variant names used to refer to this dynamic are pianississimo, pianissimo possibile, or piano pianissimo
• Platinum Pied Pipers

Other[link]

• Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (Parlamentarisches Patenschafts-Programm), German-American exchange scholarship program
• ParaParaParadise, a rhythm video game
• Parley P. Pratt, PPP being a common abbreviation for his name in citations
• Perfect passive participle^{[citation needed]}
• The Perfect Prom Project
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, an Italian poet and film director
• Pixar Play Parade
• Planet P Project
• Point Pleasant Park in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Poisoned Pen Press, the second largest hardcover publisher of mysteries in the U.S.A.
• Potter Puppet Pals, a web series created by Neil Cicierega
• Prepayment penalty, a penalty paid when a mortgage loan is paid off early (ahead of the amortization schedule), usually because a property is sold
• Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology, a degree course at Oxford University
• Public Policy Polling, an American polling firm
• PPP is the IATA code for Whitsunday Coast Airport
• presenting the language, practising it in a controlled way and then using it in a free communication production, in foreign language teaching, e.g., in the audio-lingual method

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Zulfiqar Mirza is a Pakistani politician who is affiliated with Pakistan Peoples Party. He hails from the district Badin, Hyderabad. He did his graduation from LMC Jamshoro, Hyderabad, Sindh. He is married to Fahmida Mirza who was elected as the first female Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan on March 19, 2008.^[1] She is also the first female parliamentary speaker in the Muslim world. Zulfiqar Mirza was the Home Minister of Sindh till June 2011.

He was assigned the portfolio of Jails and prisons as well as the portfolio of Senior Minister for Works, Services and Forest in Sindh cabinet. He remained member of Provincial Assembly of Sindh, member of PPP Central Executive Committee and Vice President of PPP (Sindh) till 28, August 2011.^[2] He acquired his secondary education at Cadet College Petaro in the late 1960s.

He is also the member of the board of directors of Mirza Sugar Mills located in District Badin, Sindh.^[3]

Allegations against MQM[link]

On Sunday, 28 August 2011, Zulfiqar Mirza announced his resignation from the government during an press briefing. Mirza waved several documents that he said carried the proof of the people responsible for the wave of violence in Karachi.^[4] He further stated that the MQM does not have a right to 100% mandate in Karachi and Hyderabad, but he would admit that their guns successfully got them (MQM) that mandate. He claimed to have a letter written by Altaf Hussain in 2001 where the MQM chief told then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair that Altaf Hussain would be willing to support the NATO if the British government helped the MQM to disband the ISI and force changes to the constitution . He also claimed to have personally visited the MQM chief at his residence in London, where Altaf Hussain allegedly told him that the MQM was planning on supporting a ‘secret American plot’ to break up Pakistan. He added that he had moved 20 men – ten of whom were facing the death penalty and ten facing life imprisonment – out of prisons in Karachi to prevent them from running criminal networks from behind bars, but that this effort was foiled by Sindh Governor Ishratul Ebad Khan of the MQM,a party run from the United Kingdom, who brought them back to Karachi . He added that 25 ‘known’ target killers were released from jail ^[5] His press conference was a major event and became major topic of discussion all over Pakistan.

In November 2011, Mirza left for London carrying documents he claimed to to contain evidence against Hussain and the MQM in the murder of Imran Farooq.^[6] Mirza presented the evidence to the Scotland Yard on 17 November 2011.^[7]

Fight against corruption[link]

Zulfiqar Mirza has said that political gathering of the Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf was an indicator of change in Pakistan and thousands of PPP workers, loyal to Benazir Bhutto and ZA Bhutto, along with Shah Mehmood Qureshi would come out on the streets for a change too. Mirza said that he was still a PPP worker and vowed to fight against corrupt ministers and mafias in the party.^[8]

See also[link]

• List of Pakistanis
• Cadet College Petaro

References[link]

External links[link]

• Zulfiqar Mirza's Web Site

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Abdul Qayyum Khan (16 July 1901 – 22 October 1981) was a major figure in Pakistan politics, in particular in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province where he served as deputy speaker, Chief Minister and Minister in the Central Government and as Federal Interior Minister.

Early life[link]

His father Khan Abdul Hakim was a Tehsildar in the North-West Frontier Province of British Indianow Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Qayyum Khan, a barrister by profession, was of Kashmiri origin.One of his brothers Abdul Hamid Khan was a prime minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.Abdul Qayum Khan was one of the eminent lawyers of N.W.F.P.During his professional career he conducted some very important cases. He used to practice in criminal law. Mirza Shams ul Haq was his most trustworthy colleague, who remained always close to him during profession and politics.Abdul Qayum was also assisted in his chambers by Muhammad Nazirullah Khan advocate, who later served as a provincial Secretary General and senior vice president of Pakistan Muslim League.

Political career[link]

Formerly a member of the Indian National Congress, Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan had served as an elected member of the Central Legislative Assembly (1937-38) as well as the deputy leader of the Congress in the Assembly. He was an ardent admirer of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, so much so that he authored a book: Gold and Guns, in which he praised the leadership of Bacha Khan and his political vision and mission. ^[1]

He joined the Muslim League in the mid 1940s and became a key figure in the Pakistan movement in N.W.F.P now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. An honest man, but a strict ruler, he was known for his development work in the province, especially for the construction of Peshawar University, primary education, hydro-electric projects like the Warsak dam and his deep dislike as well as brutal suppression of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement.^[2] His role in ordering the Babra Sharif massacre is one which he faces much criticism for, that in combination with the brutal crackdown against his former colleagues in the Congress party earned him their lasting hatred. He led the Muslim League to a landslide victory in the controversial 1951 elections, despite opposition from the Khudai Khidmatgar movement and opposition from Federally backed fellow Muslim league opponents like Yusuf Khattak.^[3]

He served as Central Minister for Industries, Food and Agriculture Minister in 1953.

Arrested by the Ayub Khan regime, he was disqualified from politics and imprisoned for two years before finally being released.

Contesting the 1970 elections from three seats as leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Qayyum faction he won two National Assembly seats one provincial seat and in 1973 entered into alliance with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) after East Pakistan broke away in the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Appointed Federal interior Minister by Zulfiqar Bhutto he served in that post till the 1977 elections when his party suffered a near total rout. After Zia-ul-Haqs assumption of power, Qayyum Khan tried to unify all the disparate Muslim League factions. His efforts were inconclusive and he died on 22 October 1981.^[4]

He was always opposed by Khan Habibullah Khan; they were life-long rivals since they were young class-mates at Islamia College, Peshawar.

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Hassan, Syed Minhaj-ul. NWFP Administration under Abdul Qaiyum Khan, 1947-53.
• Qaiyum, Abdul, Gold and Guns on the Pathan Frontier, Bombay, 1945

See also[link]

• Sardar Abdur Rashid Khan
• Yusuf Khattak

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