Central Executive Committee سنٹرل ایگزیکٹو كميٹي Central Executive Committee | |
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| Leadership | |
Principal Officer(s) | |
Executive Officer(s) | |
Secretaries | Secretaries of the Peoples Party |
Presidium Officer(s) | Presidents Vice Presidents |
| Seats | Varied |
| Meeting place | |
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| The People's Secretariat at the Parliament House, Islamabad | |
| Website | |
| official site | |
The Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party of Pakistan (Urdu: سنٹرل ایگزیکٹو كميٹى; otherwise known as Core Committee,[1] is an apex and De jure supreme governing authority of Pakistan Peoples Party— a centre-left and democratic socialist political party.[2]
The central committee directed and supervised all party policies and government activities (if only in power) at central government and provisional level.[3]
Its executive officer consists of chairman (as well co-chairman at present) and numbers of presidents, vice-presidents, and vice-chairmen.[4] The central committee may appoints many of the most powerful people in the country, including general-secretaries, presidents, vice-presidents of the party.[4]
In party's hierarchy, the central executive committee is the highest and powerful governing authority and it has final jurisdiction over all the party decision. During the times of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, it acted as the highest party authority and had control over the enforcement of all economic, scientific, industrial, public and social policies in the country. During the 1980s, it served as the ground base and the ideological headquarter of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD) to take down the Islamist military dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq.[5]
The number of its members are vary and the central executive committee does not have any limitations as it goes to the membership of the party. The central committee coordinates activities between Federal Councils and Provisional Presidium and Secretariat Generals at the provisional levels.[4] It is the highest organ of Party's structural leadership and plays a minor role in government policy formations and enforcement. The central executive committee is currently headquartered in the People's Secretariat at the Parliament House.[citation needed]
Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party
The Secretariat-General of the Central Executive Committee is currently headquartered in the People's Secretariat at the Parliament. The central executive committee (CEC) is chaired and directed by an elected and designated chairman (or either co-chairman) who convened all the party meeting at higher level, usually chairman's decision is considered final decision.[6]
| Office Barriers and Presidents of the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party | |||
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| Chairpersons | |||
| Order | Office holder | Term started | Term ended |
| 1 | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | November 30, 1967 | April 4, 1979 |
| 2 | Nusrat Bhutto | April 4, 1979 | January 10, 1984 |
| 3 | Benazir Bhutto | January 10, 1984 | December 27, 2007 |
| 4 | Asif Ali Zardari | December 27, 2007 | March 29, 2013 |
| 5 | Bilawal Bhutto | December 27, 2007 | Incumbent |
| Vice Chairpersons | |||
| Order | Office holders | Government assignment | Major office bearers |
| 1 | None | None | Vice Chairman |
| Secretaries | |||
| Order | Office holders | Secretaries | Member of Parliament |
| 1 | Nayyar Hussain Bukhari[7] | Secretary General | None |
| 2 | Haider Zaman Qureshi | Secretary Finance | None |
| 3 | Maula Bakhsh Chandio | Secretary Information | Senate |
| Presidents | |||
| Order | Office holders | Government assignment | Provinces |
| 1 | Raja Pervaiz Ashraf | None | President, Central Punjab and Ex officio member |
| 2 | Makhdoom Ahmed Mehmood | None | President, South Punjab and Ex officio member |
| 3 | Nisar Ahmad Khuhro | Provincial Minister of Food and Parliamentary Affairs | President, Sindh and Ex officio member |
| 4 | Muhammad Humayoon Khan | None | President, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Ex officio member |
| 5 | Mir Changez Khan Jamali | None | President, Balochistan and Ex officio member |
| 6 | Ch. Latif Akbar | None | President, Azad Kashmir and Ex officio member |
| 7 | Amjad Hussain Azar | None | President, Gilgit-Baltistan and Ex officio member |
| Members and Special Invitees of the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Peoples Party |
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References
- ^ DAWN.COM (2 April 2012). "President summons core committee meeting over Karachi". Dawn News. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "The Party Structure". PPP Secretariat. Archived from the original on 8 March 2005. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Staff. "Central Executive Committee (CEC) banneds Abidi's entry into Presidency". Pakistan Observers. Archived from the original on 21 December 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ a b c PPP. "Central Executive Committee (CEC)". CEC Structure. Archived from the original on 3 August 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Sarfaraz Memon (October 27, 2011). "Mourning Begum Nusrat Bhutto: PPP Central Executive Committee pays homage". Tribune Express. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ Staff. "President convene PPP central committee meeting". Ajj TV. Retrieved 8 August 2012.
- ^ "Party Structure". Pakistan Peoples Party. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
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