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PPP starts election campaign with 10-point manifesto

report in The Nation, Dec 28, 2023GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bi­lawal Bhutto-Zardari yesterday launched his party’s campaign for the general elections in the country by unveil­ing a 10-point agenda primarily focused on welfare initiatives. Addressing a gather­ing held here to mark the 16th death anniversary of his mother and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto here, Bilawal out­lined the party’s election agenda for the upcoming polls scheduled for Feb­ruary 8, 2024.…

PPP can shake hands with all but PTI

report in The Express Tribune, December 18th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: It appears that the PPP is amenable to forming electoral alliances and seat adjustment deals with all political parties in the upcoming general elections, except for the PTI, which has been in the eye of the storm since May 9 incidents. On Sunday, PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zadari during a visit to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) capital forbade the PPP’s provincial leadership from entering into any electoral deal…

PPP, PMLN, ANP demand president quit

report in The News, August 21, 2023ISLAMABAD: Three major political parties, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) and Awami National Party (ANP), have sought the resignation of President Dr Arif Alvi after his statement on the issue of signing of two important bills. Faisal Karim Kundi, a spokesman for the PPP, responded by calling the incident unfortunate and lamenting the fact that the president apologised 24 hours after it was reported in…

Another PPP activist shot dead in ‘targeted attack’

Report in Dawn, August 21st, 2023KARACHI: Less than four days after the targeted killing of a local office-bearer of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Orangi Town, another activist of the party was shot dead in Ittehad Town in the small hours of Sunday morning, police and party officials said. They added that Shaukat Hammad, 35, was sitting outside his home in Abidabad when assailants on a motorbike killed him. South-DIG Irfan Ali Baloch told…

PPP demands elections under Article 224

By Asim Yasin in The News, August 19, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had demanded that the Election Commission reconsider its decision in light of Article 224 to hold the elections within 90 days and said any delimitation without changing the existing constitution of NA, PA seats should proceed swiftly allowing the election to take place within the constitutionally mandated timeframe. Vice President of PPP Parliamentarians Senator Sherry Rehman responded to the ECP’s schedule…