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In Bhutto's political will, she had designated Zardari her successor as party leader. [91] [94] [98] However, their nineteen-year-old son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, became Chairman of the PPP because Zardari favoured Bilawal to represent Bhutto's legacy, in part to avoid division within the party due to his own unpopularity.
On 15 December 2023, Faisal Karim Kundi, the spokesperson of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), announced that former President Asif Ali Zardari, who is also the party's president, would be their presidential candidate for the 2024 elections. [13] The Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML(N)) also announced its support for Zardari's candidacy. [14]
Zardari is the widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and gained political stature after his wife's assassination in a suicide bombing in December 2007, taking control of the PPP Party ...
Party Candidate Votes % ±% PPP: Dr. Azra Fazal Pecheho : 113,199 : 56.83 : MQM: Inayat Ali Rind 33,874 17.01 PML(F) Syed Zahid Hussain Shah 25,223 12.66 Independent: Sardar Sher Muhammad Rind 16,485 8.28 Others Others (twenty seven candidates) 10,401 5.22 Turnout: 205,226 54.81 Total valid votes 199,182 97.06 Rejected ballots 6,044 2.94 ...
Bhutto, the founder of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) now run by his grandson and former foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, was hanged in 1979 after a trial under the military regime of ...
During October 2022 by-elections conducted for the National Assembly, the party won 7 out of 9 seats with Khan winning 6 of the 7 seats he was contesting for. [54] Later in the year, Khan himself led a well-attended march of protest throughout the populous province of Punjab, to force an early general election. [55]
Asif Ali Zardari (born 1955) 9 September 2008 9 September 2013 5 years Pakistan People's Party: 2008: 12 Mamnoon Hussain (1940–2021) 9 September 2013 9 September 2018 5 years Pakistan Muslim League (N) 2013: 13 Arif Alvi (born 1949) 9 September 2018 10 March 2024 5 years, 183 days Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: 2018 (11) Asif Ali Zardari (born ...
Asif Ali Zardari (born 1955) 9 September 2008 9 September 2013 5 years Pakistan People's Party: 2008: 12 Mamnoon Hussain (1940–2021) 9 September 2013 9 September 2018 5 years Pakistan Muslim League (N) 2013: 13 Arif Alvi (born 1949) 9 September 2018 10 March 2024 5 years, 183 days Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: 2018 (11) Asif Ali Zardari (born ...