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The People's Party, Peoples Party, or Popular Party, is any of several political parties claiming to speak for the people. People's Parties in various countries run the gamut from left to right. In Europe it represents centre-right and Christian democrat or national conservative parties. Translations into English of the names of the various countries' parties are not always consistent, but People's Party is the most common.
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.