Parties

Encyclopedia of Pakistan · 10 items

Pakistan Peoples Party

social democracy, progressivism, Islāmic Socialism

Founded: 1967
Current leader: Bilawal Zardari

Right

Lashkar-e-Taiba

Founded: 1990

Centre

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

populism, welfare state, Third Way

Founded: 1996
Current leader: 伊姆兰·汗

Pakistan Muslim League (N)

Party of the incumbent head of government

conservatism, economic liberalism

Founded: 1993
Current leader: Shehbaz Sharif

Jamaat-e-Islami

Islamism

Founded: 1947

Centre-right

Pakistan Muslim League

conservatism

Founded: 2002
Current leader: Shujaat Hussain

Awami National Party

democratic socialism, federalism, secularism

Founded: 1986
Current leader: Asfandyar Wali Khan

Muttahida Qaumi Movement

liberalism, nationalism, secularism

Founded: 1984
Current leader: Altaf Hussain

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal

nationalism, Islamism

Founded: 2003
Current leader: Fazal-ur-Rehman

Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan

Islamism, Islamofascism, religious intolerance

Founded: 2015
Current leader: Allama Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi sahib

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