The Bhutto and PPP Emerge as Leading Party 1970 Elections West Pakistan

The seeding of an idea: In 1966 after being eased out from the Ayub Khan regime, Z.A. Bhutto came in contact with Marxist ideologue, J.A. Rahim (front right). Both began discussing the idea of forming a progressive politicaBhutto also exchanged ideas with poet, painter and intellectual, Hanif Ramay (right). Ramay was leading a scholarly group in Lahore and working on forming a hybrid ideology which fused socialism and Pakistani nationalism with the "egalitarian concepts of Islam". Ramay termed it Islamic Socialism.l party.