The Left in Pakistan lost its steer after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007 , and the armed right-wing insurgency in the country further limited the Left . The populist , Lawyer 's movement , was also influenced by the leftist ideas and prominent leftist leaders , such as Aitzaz Ahsan , Ali Ahmad Kurd , and Raza Rabbani , were the front personalities to lead the movement to restore the Judiciary and to ouster Pervez Musharraf from the government . In spite of right-wing pressure and accusations of corruption , the Left demonstrated its united stand during the general elections held in 2013 under new left-wing leaders Raza Rabbani and Aitzaz Ahsan Though a number of steps were taken in this regard by the government led by Asif Ali Zardari which included but are not limited to , Employees Stock option scheme under which public sector employees were made share holders in their respective departments , free of cost housing scheme was initiated in Sindh under the name of Benazir Bhen Basti , more than 56,000 acres of land was distributed within the peasants , A comprehensive plan for the eradication of poverty was started under the name of Benazir Income Support Program which is now one of the largest social safety program in Asia . In addition to that a program named as waseela-e-haq was initiated under which 0.3 million rps . each were distributed in between thousands of deserving families so that they can start their own earning . Schemes such as Benazir life insurance scheme was also initiated . Thousands of contractual employees were not only regularized but thousand of other employees were also reinstated . As a result of these steps then President of Pakistan Mr. Asif Ali Zardari was elected as the Vice-President of the Socialist International . As of current , the Left and the PTI and PPP is currently sitting in opposition in the parliament against the PML ( N ) and right-wing parties ' government
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Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Socialism in Pakistan