The
PPP came in
power politics after the
loss of
East Pakistan in 1971. After uplifting the martial law in 1972 and promulgating the
constitution in 1973, the PPP made slow efforts to advance the "
Islam and democracy" in the country, but intensified the
socialism with a vengeance. First and foremost, the
nationalisation program was carried out to centralise the large-scale industries, private-sector and commercial corporation to set up the strong
state sector. Early calls for the elections were intended to not give the opposition enough time to make decisions and arrangements for the forthcoming elections. The other small parties too joined the alliance and initially called for ending the
era of stagflation in the country and its manifesto was to bring back the 1970 prices.:
Right-wing populism and violence At this platform, the modern European style-influenced forces formed an alliance with totally opposite of
hard-line Islamist forces. Contesting the 1977 elections jointly the PNA launched a national campaign against the government after the controversial and allegedly rigged results showing the Peoples Party as an overwhelming victory in the general elections.
Authoritarianism and PNA split The conservatives and Islamist fronts went to
General Zia-ul-Haq,
Chief of Army Staff and Admiral
Mohammad Shariff,
Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, and convinced them to remove Bhutto and no other agreement is reached with Bhutto and his colleagues remained stubborn. The veracity of these claims are difficult to verify since the United States has strongly rejected any claims of their involvement in downfall of Bhutto. though she did not disclosed the name of the foreign power. ==Alliance members==