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Party Leader
History of Pakistan
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| | 1970 | Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali | |
| Dec Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party emerges as the single largest party from Punjab and Sindh and manages to win 81 National Assembly seats, all from the Western Wing |
| 1984 | Bhutto, Benazir | |
| Allowed to return to the United Kingdom, Bhutto becomes a leader in exile of the PPP, her father's party |
| 1988 | Bhutto, Benazir | |
| 16th Nov In the first open election in more than a decade, Bhutto's PPP win the largest bloc of seats in the National Assembly |
| 1993 | Sharif, Nawaz | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Pakistan Muslim League |
| 1996 | Bhutto, Benazir | |
| Oct After being dismissed by the then-president of Pakistan on charges of corruption, Bhutto's party loses the October elections |
| Oct Serves as leader of the opposition while Nawaz Sharif becomes Prime Minister for the next three years |
| Oct Sharif returns to power in February 1997 with such a huge majority that the result is immediately questioned by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, Sharif won by obtaining 90 percent of the national votes cast |
| 1996 | Sharif, Nawaz | |
| Nawaz Sharif holds the record in Pakistani politics for securing the heaviest mandate in a general election in Pakistan |
| Sharif returns to power in February 1997 with such a huge majority that the result is immediately questioned by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party, Sharif won by obtaining 90 percent of the national votes cast |
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