The People's National Party (PNP) is a social democratic and social liberal Jamaican political party, founded by Norman Manley in 1938. It is currently the Party with the biggest majority in the Parliament of Jamaica having 42 of the 63 seats.

It is the oldest political party in the Anglophone Caribbean and one of the main two political parties in Jamaica. Out of the two major parties, it is considered more to the left than its main rival, the Jamaica Labour Party. It has been the majority in the Jamaican Parliament between 1972 to 1980, from 1989 to September 2007 until the JLP won the general election and now, currently, as of the December 2011 general election. The party is a member of the Socialist International.

The PNP was defeated in the first universal elections held in Jamaica in 1944, winning only four of the 32 seats (one elected independent joined the party afterwards). It came to office again in 1955, and held office until just before independence in 1962 when the party was defeated by its principal rival, the Jamaica Labour Party. During this period of government it promoted actively reformist social democratic policies, including opening secondary education to many poorer Jamaicans through state funding of scholarships.

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Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, ON, MP (born 12 December 1945) is the seventh and current^[update]Prime Minister of Jamaica, inaugurated on 5 January 2012 representing the People's National Party. Along with being Prime Minister, Simpson-Miller also chose to hold the positions of Minister of Defence, Development, Information and Sports. She previously served a term in the office from 30 March 2006 to 11 September 2007, as the first woman in that role. She defeated Andrew Holness of the Jamaica Labour Party in the December 2011 general election. Simpson-Miller is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former female presidents and prime ministers..

Simpson-Miller was first elected in 1976 to the Parliament of Jamaica, for the constituency of South West St. Andrew Parish, as a member of the People's National Party. The PNP boycotted the elections called in 1983. She was re-elected to the same seat in a later election, and served as Minister of Labour, Welfare and Sports from 1989 to 1993. She was Minister of Labour and Welfare from 1993 to 1995, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Sports from 1995 to February 2000, Minister of Tourism and Sports from February 2000 to October 2002, and Minister of Local Government and Sport since October 2002.

Imran Khan Niazi (Urdu: عمران خان نیازی; born 25 November 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics. Currently, besides his political activism, Khan is also a philanthropist, cricket commentator, Chancellor of the University of Bradford and Founder and Chairman Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre.

Arguably Pakistan's most successful cricket captain, Khan played for the Pakistani cricket team from 1971 to 1992 and served as its captain intermittently throughout 1982–1992. After retiring from cricket at the end of the 1987 World Cup, he was called back to join the team in 1988. At 39, Khan led his teammates to Pakistan's first and only World Cup victory in 1992. He has a record of 3807 runs and 362 wickets in Test cricket, making him one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. On 14 July 2010, Khan was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) (Urdu: پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی), is a center-left, democratic socialist political party in Pakistan affiliated with the Socialist International. The Pakistan People's Party is the largest political party of Pakistan. All of its leaders have been members of the Bhutto-Zardari family.

The party is a promotes a social democratic and progressivist platform, considered center-left in Pakistan's national political spectrum. Although its center of gravity lies in the southern province of Sindh, it also has considerable support in the more densely populated provinces of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, and the party has been elected to power four times since its formation in 1967.

The Pakistan People's Party was founded by former members of the defunct Pakistan Socialist Party, banned by then-Prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan. The tendency of socialism was greater in West-Pakistan, opposing the pro-Western and Pro-American policies of Ayub Khan in 1960s. Ayub Khan gained notoriety and, defamed after signing the Tashkent Agreement with rival India to end the 1965 September war. The democratic socialists and the public anger, and dismissal of charismatic democratic socialist Zulfikar Ali Bhutto further dismayed the public, with Bhutto determined to bring down the government of Ayub Khan. Finally the party was launched at its founding convention on November 30, 1967 in Lahore, where democratic socialists and left-wing intellectuals gathered to meet with Bhutto at the residence of dr. Mubashir Hassan. The Bengali communist J.A. Rahim wrote the party's manifesto, and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was elected its first chairman by participants.