Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Qaumi Watan Party

Index Qaumi Watan Party

Qaumi Watan Party (قومي وطن ګوند or قامي وطنپال ګوند; قومی وطن پارٹی), abbreviated as QWP and formerly called Pakistan Peoples Party–Sherpao (PPP–S), is one of the prominent political parties in Pakistan, that split away from the Pakistan Peoples Party just before the 2002 general election. [1]

33 relations: Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, Balochistan, Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, Black, Centre-left politics, Elections in Pakistan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Flag of Afghanistan, Habibullāh Kalakāni, Hayatabad, Islam, Islamic socialism, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Kingdom of Afghanistan, List of heads of state of Afghanistan, Mongol invasion of Central Asia, National Assembly of Pakistan, Neo-nationalism, Pakistan, Pakistan Peoples Party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Pakistani general election, 2002, Pakistani general election, 2008, Pashtun nationalism, Pashtuns, Peshawar, Political party, Red, Senate of Pakistan, Shireen Mazari, Social democracy, White.

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao

Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao (born 20 August 1944) is a Pakistani politician who is the current chairman of Qaumi Watan Party.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao · See more »

Balochistan, Pakistan

Balochistan (bəloːt͡ʃɪs't̪ɑːn) (بلوچِستان), is one of the five provinces of Pakistan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Balochistan, Pakistan · See more »

Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto (بينظير ڀُٽو; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Benazir Bhutto · See more »

Black

Black is the darkest color, the result of the absence or complete absorption of visible light.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Black · See more »

Centre-left politics

Centre-left politics or center-left politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-left politics, is an adherence to views leaning to the left-wing, but closer to the centre on the left–right political spectrum than other left-wing variants.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Centre-left politics · See more »

Elections in Pakistan

Since its establishment in 1947, Pakistan has had an asymmetric federal government and is a federal parliamentary democratic republic.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Elections in Pakistan · See more »

Federally Administered Tribal Areas

The Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA; قبایلي سیمې، منځنۍ پښتونخوا; وفاقی منتظم شدہ قبائیلی علاقہ جات) was a semi-autonomous tribal region in northwestern Pakistan that existed from 1947 until being merged with neighboring province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in 2018.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Federally Administered Tribal Areas · See more »

Flag of Afghanistan

The national flag of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان رپی; Dari Persian: پرچم افغانستان) consists of a vertical tricolor with the classical National Emblem in the center.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Flag of Afghanistan · See more »

Habibullāh Kalakāni

King Habibullah Kalakani (fa, or Bache Saqqaw, fa), 19 January 1891 – 1 November 1929), was King of Afghanistan from January to October 1929 after deposing Amanullah Khan He was executed nine months later by Nadir Khan.Dupree, Louis: "Afghanistan", page 459. Princeton University Press, 1973 Khalilullah Khalili, a Kohistani poet laureate, depicts King Habibullah Kalakani as a mujahid, a "warrior of God." Kalakani was nicknamed Bacha-e Saqaw (literally son of the water carrier) and bandit king.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Habibullāh Kalakāni · See more »

Hayatabad

Hayatabad is a modern suburb on the south-western fringe of Peshawar, the capital of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Hayatabad · See more »

Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Islam · See more »

Islamic socialism

Islamic socialism is a term coined by various Muslim leaders to describe a more spiritual form of socialism.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Islamic socialism · See more »

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (abbreviated as KP; خیبر پختونخوا; خیبر پښتونخوا) is one of the four administrative provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern region of the country along the international border with Afghanistan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa · See more »

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly is the unicameral legislative body of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly · See more »

Kingdom of Afghanistan

The Kingdom of Afghanistan (د افغانستان واکمنان, Dǝ Afġānistān wākmanān; Persian:, Pādešāhī-ye Afġānistān) was a constitutional monarchy in southern and central Asia established in 1926 as a successor state to the Emirate of Afghanistan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Kingdom of Afghanistan · See more »

List of heads of state of Afghanistan

This article lists the heads of state of Afghanistan since the foundation of the first Afghan state, the Hotak Empire, in 1709.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and List of heads of state of Afghanistan · See more »

Mongol invasion of Central Asia

The Mongol invasion of Central Asia occurred after the unification of the Mongol and Turkic tribes on the Mongolian plateau in 1206.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Mongol invasion of Central Asia · See more »

National Assembly of Pakistan

Qaumi Assembly Pakistan (قومی اسمبلئ پاکستان or National Assembly of Pakistan (ایوانِ زیریں پاکستان) is the lower house of the bicameral Majlis-e-Shura, which also comprises the President of Pakistan and Aiwan-e Bala (upper house). The Qaumi Assembly and the Aiwan-e Bala both convene at Parliament House in Islamabad. The National Assembly is a democratically elected body consisting of a total of 342 members who are referred to as Members of the National Assembly (MNAs), of which 272 are directly elected members and 70 reserved seats for women and religious minorities. A political party must secure 172 seats to obtain and preserve a majority. Members are elected through the first-past-the-post system under universal adult suffrage, representing electoral districts known as National Assembly constituencies. According to the constitution, the 70 seats reserved for women and religious minorities are allocated to the political parties according to their proportional representation. Each National Assembly is formed for a five-year term, commencing from the date of the first sitting, after which it is automatically dissolved. Currently the National Assembly can not be dissolved by the President of Pakistan, it is dissolved by the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Election for 13th National Assembly was held on 18 February 2008. On March 17, 2013 13th National Assembly was dissolved on completion of its five-year term under Article 52 of the Constitution. Pakistani general election, 2013 (for the 14th National Assembly) was held on May 11, 2013. Members of 14th National Assembly took oath on June 1, 2013. The 14th National Assembly dissolved on 31 May 2018 after completing its 5 year term.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and National Assembly of Pakistan · See more »

Neo-nationalism

Neo-nationalism or new nationalism is a type of nationalism that rose in the mid-2010s in Europe and North America and to some degree in other regions.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Neo-nationalism · See more »

Pakistan

Pakistan (پاکِستان), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (اِسلامی جمہوریہ پاکِستان), is a country in South Asia.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Pakistan · See more »

Pakistan Peoples Party

The Pakistan Peoples Party (پاکِستان پیپلز پارٹی, commonly referred to as the PPP) is a left-wing, socialist-progressive political party of Pakistan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Pakistan Peoples Party · See more »

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) (پاکستان تحريک انصاف, English: Pakistan Movement for Justice) is a political party in Pakistan founded in 1996 by former national cricket captain Imran Khan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf · See more »

Pakistani general election, 2002

General elections were held in Pakistan on 10 October 2002 to elect the National Assembly of Pakistan and the provincial assemblies.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Pakistani general election, 2002 · See more »

Pakistani general election, 2008

General elections were held in Pakistan on 18 February 2008, after being postponed from 8 January 2008.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Pakistani general election, 2008 · See more »

Pashtun nationalism

Pashtun nationalism (پښتون ملتپالنه) is a political and social movement which promotes the idea that the Pashtuns are deserving of a sovereign nation in their homeland of Pashtunistan, which consists of the Pashtun-majority parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Pashtun nationalism · See more »

Pashtuns

The Pashtuns (or; پښتانه Pax̌tānə; singular masculine: پښتون Pax̌tūn, feminine: پښتنه Pax̌tana; also Pukhtuns), historically known as ethnic Afghans (افغان, Afğān) and Pathans (Hindustani: پٹھان, पठान, Paṭhān), are an Iranic ethnic group who mainly live in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Pashtuns · See more »

Peshawar

Peshawar (پېښور; پشاور; پشور) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Peshawar · See more »

Political party

A political party is an organised group of people, often with common views, who come together to contest elections and hold power in government.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Political party · See more »

Red

Red is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Red · See more »

Senate of Pakistan

Aiwan-e Bala (ایوانِ بالا) or Senate of Pakistan is the upper legislative chamber of the bicameral legislature of Pakistan, and together with the Qaumi Assembly makes up the Majlis-e-Shoora.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Senate of Pakistan · See more »

Shireen Mazari

Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari (شیرین مہرالنساء مزاری) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and serves as a chief whip for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Shireen Mazari · See more »

Social democracy

Social democracy is a political, social and economic ideology that supports economic and social interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a liberal democratic polity and capitalist economy.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and Social democracy · See more »

White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue), because it fully reflects and scatters all the visible wavelengths of light.

New!!: Qaumi Watan Party and White · See more »

Redirects here:

Pakistan People's Party (S), Pakistan People's Party-S, Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao), QWP.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qaumi_Watan_Party

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »