The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) (Urdu: پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی ) is a mainstream centre-left political party in Pakistan. It is led by chairperson Benazir Bhutto. The Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) is a party formed in 2002 by the PPP for the purpose of complying with electoral rules governing Pakistani parties.
The party was founded in 1967, on November 30th and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto became its first chairman. The party creed is: "Islam is our faith; democracy is our politics; socialism is our economy; all power to the people."
The Pakistan Peoples Party is considerably more liberal than other political parties in Pakistan and is known to fight for such issues as women's rights (its current leader is a woman) and the rights of the poor and the oppressed. The party's leadership is considered to be more educated than that of other mainstream parties, with some of its members educated at institutions including Harvard University, Oxford University, University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley.The party however has frequently been linked with corruption and scandals throughout the history of Pakistan. Most notably of those involving the Bhutto family include murder orders of opposition leaders and widespread money laundering.
Although its center of gravity lies in the southern province of Sindh where it has the support of an overwhelming majority of people, it also has considerable support in the more densely populated province of Punjab.