History of PPP in Abbottabad

Sardar Muhammad Aslam Advocate (1938 – 12 December 1997) was member of the upper house of parliament of Pakistan (the Senate). He was twice elected as senator on the Pakistan Peoples Party ticket. He was also member of Pakistan Peoples Party central executive committee. Khan was also a three-time president of the District Bar Association Abbottabad.

Background

Sardar Aslam was born in 1936 in Nawanshehr, District Abbottabad. He was son of Khan Bahadur Captain Sardar Zain Muhammad Khan, elder of the Karlal tribe of Abbottabad and one of earliest parliamentarians of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) from Hazara. The elder Khan was elected as Member Legislative Assembly of NWFP in 1946 elections on the ticket of All India Muslim League from Abbottabad and, after the creation of Pakistan, also served as parliamentary secretary for education till 1952.

Sardar Muhammad Aslam was a law graduate from Peshawar University and initially joined the North-West Frontier Province police department as prosecutor, but in 1966 he resigned from service and started law practice in District Bar Abbottabad.

Political career

He remained President of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Hazara Division and member Central Executive Committee of PPP from 1967-77. He along with Hayyat Sherpao Shaeed was a pioneer who laid the foundations of PPP in NWFP. In the initial phase of organizing of the PPP he was one the close aides of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.

In 1973 he became member of the first Senate of Pakistan for a three-year term by ballot and later on in 1976 was again nominated by Bhutto for another term of six years. He remained a member of the Senate until the imposition of the Martial Law in 1977. He also represented Pakistan in International Parliamentarians Congress 1976 in Colombo and was also member of Pakistan's delegation to China in 1974 and 1975. He also served as President of District Bar Association Abbottabad three times. Apart from national politics, throughout his life Khan remained an influential tribal elders of district Abbottabad. He died on 12 December 1997.

History of Pakistan Peoples Party

Brief History:
1967 - 2000 by Fakhar Zaman

Ayub Khan lost at the negotiation table at Tashkent the war that was won by the Pakistan army supported by the people of Pakistan in 1965. This humiliation enraged the people of Pakistan against the dictator. Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, a patriot as he has always been, was left with no choice but to quit the Ayub Government on June 16, 1966. Bhutto was determined to bring down the dictator who had betrayed the nation.

To achieve this goal, he needed a political organization and a political platform. He waited for more than a year before he found both; like so many aggrieved politicians before him, he chose to found his own political party.

The PPP was launched at its founding convention held in Lahore on November 30 - December 01, 1967. At the same meeting, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was elected as its Chairman. Among the express goals for which the party was formed were the establishment of an "egalitarian democracy" and the "application of socialistic ideas to realize economic and social justice". A more immediate task was to struggle against the hated dictatorship of Ayub Khan,who was at the height of his power when the PPP was formed. Basic principles of PPP enshrined:

• Islam is our Faith

• Democracy is our politics

• Socialism is our Economy

• All Power to the People

The Party also promised the elimination of feudalism in accordance with the established principles of socialism to protect and advance the interests of peasantry.