Zulfikar Ali BhuttoDecember 1970
Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party emerges as the single largest party from Punjab and Sindh and manages to win 81 National Assembly seats, all from the Western Wing
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Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party emerges as the single largest party from Punjab and Sindh and manages to win 81 National Assembly seats, all from the Western Wing
Pakistans first genuine free elections are held, both factions of the League are swept out of power, in West Pakistan by the Pakistan Peoples Party of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and in East Pakistan by the Awami League of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
In the first open election in more than a decade, Bhuttos PPP win the largest bloc of seats in the National Assembly
Sharif returns to power in February 1997 with such a huge majority that the result is immediately questioned by Bhuttos Pakistan Peoples Party, Sharif won by obtaining 90 percent of the national votes cast. Serves as leader of the opposition while Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister for the next three years. After being dismissed by the then-president of Pakistan on charges of corruption, Bhuttos party loses the October elections
The Bhutto-led PPP secures the highest number of votes (28.42%) and eighty seats (23.16%) in the national assembly in the October 2002 general elections. Candidates of PPP form a faction of their own, calling it PPP-Patriots, led by Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, former leader of Bhutto-led PPP who later form a coalition Government with Musharrafs party, PML-Q
Candidates of PPP form a faction of their own, calling it PPP-Patriots, led by Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat, former leader of Bhutto-led PPP who later form a coalition Government with Musharrafs party, PML-Q
After eight years in exile in Dubai and London, Bhutto returns to Karachi to prepare for the 2008 national elections
Bhutto meets Nawaz Sharif to publicize their demand that Musharraf fulfill his promise to lift the state of emergency before Januarys Parliamentary elections, threatening to boycott the vote if he failed to comply
Bhutto is killed leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 Parliamentary elections
Bhutto declares her intention to return to Pakistan within 2007, which she did, in spite of Musharrafs statements of May 2007 about not allowing her to return ahead of the countrys general election, due late 2007 or early 2008
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