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Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz)

The PMLN was long regarded as the party closest to the powerful establishment of generals and senior bureaucrats. Mr Sharif, Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, 46, the youthful leader of the Pakistan Muslim League, the country's founding party, comes from a business background.

Nawaz Sharif and his Pakistan Muslim League, which, in the 1993 elections, emerged as the party with the highest vote bank in the country with a popular support base of 41% (the Pakistan Muslim League received one million votes more than the Pakistan People's Party in the 1993 elections), is today the symbol of national unity acting as a bridge builder between Punjab and the smaller provinces and the federation of Pakistan.
The election Manifesto 2002 "Pledge with Pakistan" of the PML (Nawaz), the government replaced by President Pervez Musharraf three years ago, pledges to block military takeovers in future. It also vows to put country on the path of democracy, self-reliance, prosperity, economic development and elimination of poverty. In addition, it also promise debating the defence budget, excluding the classified, in the parliament and to limit the powers of the Military Intelligence to security and counter-terrorism. It also promised to abolish the elitist education system by creating equal opportunities, universal primary enrollment by 2005, launching a movement to raise literacy rate to 75% by 2010 and to spend 4% of GNP allocated for education by 2007. PML (N) has won 13 seats in the National Assembly.
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Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA)

MMA is alliance of Islamic relgious political parties staunchly believing in democratic values, which has always welcomed constructive criticism.

Their basic ideas are islamic philosophy and ideology ialso want devolution of powers on gross-roots level and hence pursuing the policy of further improving and strengthening the new local government system in the provinces
The election manifesto of MMA promised enforcing the Islamic laws and systems in the country and the end of US influence in the region. It also promised to check the rising inflation level and to create job opportunities with stress on education and health sectors.

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Pakitan Tehreek-e-Insaf

In 1996 Imran, disgusted with the state of national politics, decided to form Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, of which he remains the Chairman. The PTI Agenda of resurgence articulates the long-neglected aspirations of the people and spells out the vision of a model, modern Islamic republic encapsulating policies and programs with clear objectives.

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Muthahidda Quami Movement (MQM's)

Muthahidda Quami Movement has bagged 13 seats in the National Assembly and 31 seats in Sindh Assembly, which makes it second top winner after PPPP in the province. MQM's manifesto calls for a new constitution to award greater provincial autonomy according to 1940 Lahore Resolution. It also calls for an independent and non-aligned foreign policy, allocating 5% of the GNP for education and 4% for health, compulsory education up to 10th grade and free education up to the primary level, 100% literacy rate in urban areas within 5 years and cent per cent literacy in 10 years.
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Pakistan Awami Tehreek

PAT believes in the supremacy of democratic rights of all citizens, which should entitled them to complete freedom and liberty.

a) Religious Freedom: This implies complete liberty in exercise of religious beliefs and practice in the light of their socio-religious traditions.
b) Socio Cultural Freedom: To uphold and practice social and cultural traditions, festivals, celebrations, rites and rituals and to adopt a social style of living according to their own customs.
c) Basic Human Rights: PAT believes in ensuring:That all basic human rights are vested in all men and women.That all men and women enjoy equality in the exercise of their basic rights.That there is a complete guarantee and sanctity of their religious, socio-political and legal rights and freedom in practicing them according to the law and democracy.No authority has any right to abrogate or suspend the fundamental human rights.
d) Equality of Rights: All citizens irrespective of religion, sect, sex, race, color or creed enjoy equal rights and no citizen enjoys preference over any other. Such example of supremacy of the judiciary is required to be ensured in our system. The same is being practiced in the western world.
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Awami National Party (ANP)In the North West Frontier Province, the anti-British activities of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Khudai Khidmitgar movement had created considerable political activism in the years before Partition. After independence, the National Awami Party (NAP), created in the 1950s on a progressive, mainly secular platform advocating social reform, continued to exercise a strong influence over Frontier politics, in opposition to the Muslim League. The politics of NAP were inherited in the 1980s by its successor, the Awami National Party (ANP), which under the leadership of Asfandyar Wali, the grandson of Ghaffar Khan, remains a major force in the NWFP today. However, the party has been accused recently of increased opportunism, particularly in the formation in 1997 of an alliance with the PML-N, a party which, in ideological terms, seems to be diametrically at odds with the more radical policies of the ANP.

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Millat Party (MP)Millat Party (MP) was formed by former President Farooq Leghari in 1999 after he was removed from the presidency following a prolonged row with then prime minister Nawaz Sharif. The MP, the National People’s Party and another breakaway PPP faction led by former NWFP chief minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, and known as the PPP-Sherpao, form a part of the pro-government Grand National Alliance (GNA) which holds 15 seats in the National Assembly.

Pakistan Muslim League-Junejo (PML-J)Pakistan Muslim League (Junejo) entered Pakistan’s national politics after forging an alliance for the 1993 polls with the PPP. Claiming 3.9 per cent of the vote cast, the PML-J under the leadership of Hamid Nasir Chatta helped bolster the PPP vote share in the Punjab. However dissent within the PML-J has split the faction since then and has severely curtailed the party’s ability to play a significant role in the national politics. The party has won two National Assembly seats in 2002 polls.

Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP)Led by Nawab Akbar Bugti, the powerful chief of the Bugti tribe, Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) has been in and out of various government and opposition coalitions during Pakistan’s lost decade of democracy between 1988 and 1997. In 2002 elections, the party’s electoral fortunes have met a setback with only one member in the National Assembly and three members in the provincial assrmbly of Balochistan, a province twice ruled by Nawab Bugti, once as a chief minister and at another time as its governor.
PML (Z)
Headed by former military ruler General Ziaul Haq’s son Ijazul Haq, the party is the latest addition to the half dozen or so PML factions. It came into being when in a pre-October 2002 poll internal conflict, Ijazul Haq challenged the leadership of then PML (Q) chief Mian Muhammad Azhar claiming from the rank and file. Failing to get hold of the top party post, Ijaz got his own faction registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan as Pakistan Muslim League (Zia), in an obvious reference to his father.

Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party

Pakistan gained Independence in 1947. In 1948 the Communist Party India helped bring about the conception of the Communist Party Pakistan (CPP) with Sajjad Zaheer as its General Secretary. Although the party was small, it was a tight and disciplined organisation with many fronts in operation.

These included the Progressive Writer’s Movement, headed by the world famous poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz (who along with Pablo Neruda won the Lenin peace prize in 1962), the Railway Worker’s Union, and a the student movement under the name of the Democratic Students Front (DSF).
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The Labour Party Pakistan (LPP)

Founded in 1997,The Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) is the fastest growing left party in Pakistan. With a strong trade union support, the LPP is attracting youth and students as well. Its students wingNational Students Federation (NSF) is fast emerging as a national level students' force. LPP's organ weekly Mazdoor Jeddojuhd is the largest trade union and left wing weekly in Pakistan
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Balochistan National Party

They believe the establishment in Islamabad has intentionally deprived them of educational facilities so as to deny them equal opportunities in jobs and other fields. If the military government sticks to its graduation condition the Baluch will also be deprived of equal electoral opportunities, especially in rural areas and more especially in the matter of women representation.

In terms of landmass, Baluchistan is the largest province of Pakistan: it occupies 43.6 per cent of the country’s total area. But it is the least populated (only 5 per cent of the total population) and, worse, least literate. It is very rich in natural resources. Pakistan’s industrial infrastructure mainly depends on the gas and coal of this province. The gas from Dera Bugti meets 60 per cent of Pakistan’s, mainly Punjab’s, domestic and industrial needs. The province has 200 coal mines, which again meet the industrial requirements of Punjab. The province is rich in marble and mineral wealth which is being explored by foreigners under contracts from the Government of Pakistan. The government has provided heavy protection to the explorers against resentful Baluch.
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World Sindhi Congress (WSC)

The World Sindhi Congress (WSC) is one of the most prominent human rights advocacy organizations for Sindh and Sindhis. The main objective of WSC is to create a better understanding among the international community about the disadvantaged status of Sindhis in Pakistan and about Sindhi peoples struggles for their human rights, including the right to self-determination.

In addition WSC strives to carry out welfare and relief work amongst the people of Sindh, such as literacy improvement, relief of poverty, health care aid, and natural disaster relief. WSC is a registered company in England and Wales, and Lousiana, USA, organzied to carry out non-profit activities only.
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Sindh National Front(S.N.F)

No doubt, a strong Federal Centre is meant to counter the fissiparous trends and separatist tendencies, but it is also correct to say that a strong Centre does not necessarily mean a strong nation. The strong Central government in the past have been responsible for a weaker rather a vulnerable Pakistan.
S.N.F (Sindh National Front) want genuine Provincial Autonomy. The autonomy which is being enjoyed by the States in the US & Canada, the Indian Provinces, the Cantons in Switzerland and the Australian Provences etc.
The Provincial Autonomy as provided with the Act of 1935 was meant for colonial India and not for free and independent Pakistan. But after that in 1940 (Lahore resolution) was the main theme of Independent Pakistan
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Pakistan Christian Congress

The first convention of Pakistan Christian Congress was held on jan.10,1985, at Lahore. It was attended by the delegates from all the disrticts of Punjab, Sindh, Balouchistan and N.W.F.

Prepresentig youth, students,labour leaders,ladies forums, lawyers and bussiness men adopting resoulation to formulate the Pakistan Christian Congress, a christians political party to launchstruggle to safeguard the social, religious and political rights of christians of Pakistan.
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