Challenges and Controversies faced by PPP

Pakistan peoples party is one of the most biggest political parties in Pakistan, which has presented some renowned leaders in the history of Pakistan and since its establishment it has faced some serious challenges and controversies which are mentioned below.

Lost left

Seeing that the 1990s, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has been beneath severe disparagement even within the associates and the leftists in the state, prominent the charges of large-scale bribery. The leading leftist, Nadeem Paracha, affirmed that since 1977, the PPP policy has been malformed into centre-right stand, while in 1977 general elections in Pakistan, the PPP policy did not mentioned the "communism". Throughout the 1973–75, the PPP fundamental ultra-left and socialist led under Mirage Khalid and the moist wings under Khalid Syed were eliminated by the PPP to make sure the political shore up and existence between the dominant Sindh's feudal lords and Punjab's landed elite, Paracha stating it the PPP has "lost left".

While leading left-wing journalist, Mehdi Hasan remarked that PPP is "not a worldly party", first declaring Ahmadiyya people as non-Muslims in the line of the succeeding parliamentary alteration, secondly proscription the utilization of liquor; thirdly, the PPP affirmed Friday as holiday to prevail the support of religious elements, Mehdi Hasan quoted.

Cyber attacks

The Chairman of PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari led a gathering on 19 September 2014 in Multan, Punjab, where he purportedly quoted: "the [PPP] would take back whole Kashmir for his state

Bhutto accentuate on his ending of the speech: "I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan...(.)"

On urgent basis, a group claiming themselves the Indian Hackers Online Squad swaps the PPP's official website's homepage with post mocking Bhutto for his comments, and alleging that "will never get Kashmir".

The post read on PPP's official website: "To Citizens of Pakistan, Pakistan's military, PPP and Specially Mr. Bilawal Bhutto. Without any Violence, Let Me tell you that Pakistan will never get Kashmir. This is the Truth. You Have to Accept it."

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari's Kashmir comment made him a knock against jokes on Twitter and in Indian media.

Internal opposition and factionalism

Since 1990s, the factionalism has grown in the party when Murtaza Bhutto returns to Pakistan. Differing with Benazir and Asif Ali Zardari's political philosophy developing the party, Bhutto come apart and fashioned the other controlling yet more leaning towards left wing faction, PPP (Bhuttoist) in 1995. Having row with Benazir Bhutto in 1999 over the party leadership, Aftab Sherpao tearing from the party and shaping the PPP (Sherpaoist)—a more reformist with democratic schema.

Factionalism persists in 2011 when PPP dismiss Mahmood Qureshi over the happening that occurred in Lahore, though Qureshi did not fixed but defecting to PTI which is centrist and third way party. One more leftist leader, Malik Ali Khan also acquiescent from the PPP, saying that "they did not concur with how President Zardari was leading the party chiefly with view to an coalition with centre-right PML (Q) and the foreign policy.

In 2012, the PPP's powerful leader, Zulfiqar Mirza, relinquish from the party regardless of urgings on amidst discrepancy with Asif Zardari's headship and policies with regards to contact with liberals MQM in Sindh. Reckoning with their separation, the communist politicians felt that the party had now moved away from the basic thoughts it was established on by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1967.

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