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{{Infobox political party
| name = National People's Party
| native_name = {{Nastaliq|نیشنل پیپلز پارٹی}}
| abbr = NPP
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| colorcode = {{party color|National Peoples Party (Pakistan)}}
| logo = National People's Party Flag.svg
| logo_size = 200px
| chairman = [[Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi]]
| secretary_general =
| founder = [[Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi]]
| founded = 1986
| dissolved = 2013
| ideology = [[Secularism]]
| merged = [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]]
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| headquarters = [[Karachi]]
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| student_wing = National People's Students Federation (NPSF)
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| symbol = '''''Tractor'''''<br />[[Image:CH-Zusatztafel-Traktor.svg|80px]]
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The '''National People's Party''' ('''NPP''') ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|نیشنل پیپلز پارٹی}}}}) was a [[political party]] located in [[Pakistan]] (most active in the province of [[Sindh]] and southern parts of [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]]). It was founded in 1986 by [[Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi]] after he had a disagreement with [[Benazir Bhutto]], subsequently leaving the [[Pakistan Peoples Party]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Crossette|first=Barbara|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE2DC113FF930A25752C1A96E948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=Election Wednesday; After Zia, Pakistan Takes Well To Politics|work=The New York Times|date=November 13, 1988}}</ref>

In the [[2008 Pakistani general election]]s the party only managed to win one seat in the [[National Assembly of Pakistan|National Assembly]]. Ghulam Mustafa's son Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi won the election in NA-211 [[Naushahro Feroze]]-I, holding the seat won in 2002 elections by Dr. Abdul Ghaffar Khan Jemms under the [[National Alliance (Pakistan)|National Alliance]] banner. The party also won four provincial seats, all in the Sindh province.

In May 2013, the party merged with the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]].<ref name="et1"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/554612/arbab-ghulam-rahims-ppml-merges-with-pml-n/|title=Arbab Ghulam Rahim's PPML merges with PML-N|work=Express Tribune|date=May 26, 2013|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608150750/http://tribune.com.pk/story/554612/arbab-ghulam-rahims-ppml-merges-with-pml-n/|archivedate=8 June 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Formation==
The National People's Party was founded in 1986 by Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, who brought together a number of political heavyweights from all over Pakistan under its banner. Among them were former Pakistan People's Party stalwarts and Punjab Chief Ministers Ghulam Mustafa Khar and Hanif Ramay, as well as former federal ministers: S.M. Zafar, Hamid Raza Gilani, Malik Hamid Sarfraz, Nawab Ghaus Bux Raisani, Kamal Azfar, Mian Sajid Pervaiz, Nafees Siddiqui, Rana Muhammad Hanif Khan, Akhtar Hussain Shah, Rabbani Khar and Aftab Shah Gilani. A [[manifesto]] was prepared and the party was expected to rise to prominence quickly due to the declining popularity of the People's Party. Now, it is declining due to insufficient leadership. Irfan Abbasi was the media coordinator of the National People's Party He had also worked in the Sukkur Division as an information secretary. Soon after, he was kicked out of the party due to allying with the Pakistan People's Party.

==IJI Coalition==
In September 1988, the newly formed NPP, the center-right [[Pakistan Muslim League]] headed by [[Muhammad Khan Junejo]], and the religious-political [[Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan|Jamaat-e-Islami]] headed by [[Qazi Hussain Ahmad]] along with six other political parties formed an anti-PPP coalition called [[Islami Jamhoori Ittehad]] or simply IJI. It was believed that the [[Pakistan Army]] intelligence agency, the [[Inter-Services Intelligence|ISI]], under Lt Gen [[Hamid Gul]], had a major role in the formation of IJI, as the army was always at odds with the left-leaning PPP.

The 1988 elections were still won by the PPP but with a thin majority. However, only 20 months into office, the PPP government was dismissed by the President [[Ghulam Ishaq Khan]] on corruption charges, and IJI won the next elections comfortably leading [[Nawaz Sharif]] from IJI to be the next prime minister. The coalition ended in 1993 when a major chunk of IJI became PML (Nawaz).

==Founding National Alliance==
For the [[2002 Pakistani general election|2002 general elections]], NPP joined the pro-[[Musharraf]] government's loose political coalition, the [[National Alliance (Pakistan)|National Alliance]]. The other alliance members were the [[Millat Party]], the [[Sindh Democratic Alliance]] and the [[Sindh National Front]]. The alliance won 16 out of 342 seats, mainly in the interior Sindh and lower Punjab region, or 4.78% of the total votes.<ref>{{cite news |first=Hasan |last=Mansoor |url=http://www.himalmag.com/2003/february/report_2.htm |title=The pathology of military democracy: Manufacturing a government in Sindh |work=Himal South Asia |date=February 2003 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080110130021/http://www.himalmag.com/2003/february/report_2.htm |archivedate=10 January 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref>

==Merger and separation with PML==
In May 2004, various PML factions and other political parties, including the National Alliance, merged with the PML-Q to form a united Pakistan Muslim League (PML).<ref>{{cite news|first=Ashraf|last=Mumtaz|url=http://www.dawn.com/2004/05/20/nat1.htm|title=Parties to inform EC about merger with PML|newspaper=Dawn|date=May 20, 2004|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220021856/http://www.dawn.com/2004/05/20/nat1.htm|archivedate=20 February 2008|df=dmy-all}}</ref> However, the understanding did not last long and NPP separated from the ruling PML and contested the 2008 elections on a its own platform.

The party won three seats in the [[2008 Pakistani general election|2008 elections]] in the Sindh Provincial Assembly and one National Assembly seat.

In May 2013, National People's Party announced its merger with the [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]].<ref name="et1">{{cite news|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/550636/partners-in-sindh-npp-merges-with-pml-n/|title=Partners in Sindh: NPP merges with PML-N|work=Express Tribune|date=May 17, 2013|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314012317/http://tribune.com.pk/story/550636/partners-in-sindh-npp-merges-with-pml-n/|archivedate=14 March 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of political parties in Pakistan]]
* [[Pakistan Peoples Party]]
* [[Politics of Pakistan]]

==References==
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{{Pakistani political parties}}
{{Pakistan topics}}

[[Category:1986 establishments in Pakistan]]
[[Category:2013 disestablishments in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Defunct political parties in Pakistan]]
[[Category:Pakistan Muslim League (N)]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1986]]
[[Category:Secularism in Pakistan]]