After the elections of 1971 (fall of Dhaka), the 1988 elections were the first major event in which elections were held on a party base because in elections of 1985 were non-party elections and PPP had boycotted these elections. Voting was announced in November and the competition was very simple whether you are with Bhutto or against Bhutto Looking at the public popularity of Benazir, it seems clear that maybe he will clean sweep the election. But her opponents were not ready to give her an open field the strategic triangle was also active the third angle of the triangle General Hameed Gul was the most active one. He created Islami Jamhoori Ittihad (IJI) of nine political parties against Benazir in no time. Apart from this, the National People's Party and Jamaat-i-Islami were also part of the IJI. Founding member of the PPP and Benazir's uncle Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was appointed IJI chief Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi was the head of the alliance, but the IJI's public face was Nawaz Sharif Huge big ads were used to publish on front pages with his images in which Benazir was written as an agent of the enemy and Jewish lobby. Addressing the public, It is said that you are in competition with your enemy. News cuttings were also shared in which Benazir and Nusrat Bhutto were not supporting the Pakistani nuclear program. PPP was using the arrow as an ambiguous election symbol against the dictatorship and his allies and IJI were using the cycle as their symbol. It was an election war and perhaps both were believing the old formula that everything is fair in war and love.
November 16, the election was held on 207 seats out of 237 total seats 104 seats were needed to constitute government A day before the Gallup survey was published claiming the most modern and scientific survey Gallup told that in elections PPP and IJI are equal in competition But when the result came, the PPP was far ahead of the IJI People's Party got 92, while IJI collected 54 seats after joining the independent candidates, the PPP got the support of 115 candidates the interesting thing about this election was that Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, head of IJI, was defeated Peer Pagara, who had full support from the government, also defeated today you hear aliens in politics"Our competition is with aliens ". Now both stood in the field and a new era in Pakistan was beginning but the election war was not over yet those days the elections of the National and Provincial Assembly were not held on the same day but after three days of the National Assembly election provincial assembly’s election were used to be held. Therefore, after defeat in the National Assembly, the IJI feared being defeated in provincial elections too. At that time, Benazir Bhutto's statement came in the Daily Mashriq and Nawai Waqt that" how did she accept a Punjabi as his leader? The IJI took the statement and in a jiffy, this slogan appeared on the walls of Punjab ... "Jag Punjabi Jag... Teri pag nu lag gia dag" . There were also announcements against Benazir Bhutto on Loud Speaker in Mosques. The people of Punjab were tried enraged and this campaign damaged the PPP, too When the result came, PPP got 88 seats from Punjab, and IJI bagged 91 seats Nawaz Sharif became Chief Minister Punjab with the help of independent candidates in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), NWFP and Baluchistan, IJI won and on 2 Dec 1988, Benazir Bhutto took the oath as the Prime Minister, and she became first woman PM of Pakistan and Islamic world It was a historical event. But in the Benazir government, there was a milestone Pakistan touched which made Pakistanis happy.
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