Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
پاکستان تحريک انصاف |
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Chairman | Imran Khan |
Vice chairman | Shah Mehmood Qureshi |
Founded | 25 April 1996 |
Headquarters | Sector G-6/4 Islamabad, Pakistan |
Student Wing | Insaf Student Federation |
Youth Wing | Insaf Youth Wing |
Women Wing | Insaf Women Wing |
Membership (2013) | 10 million (worldwide) |
Ideology |
Welfarism Islamic democracy Social democracy Third Way Centrism Progressivism Islamism Pakistani nationalism Egalitarianism Equality Environmentalism |
Political position | Centre |
Colors | Green, Red |
Slogan | Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem |
Senate |
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National Assembly |
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Punjab Assembly |
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KPK Assembly |
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Sindh Assembly |
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AJK Assembly |
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GB Assembly |
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Party flag | |
Website | |
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) (Urdu: پاکستان تحريک انصاف; Pakistan Movement for Justice) is a political party in Pakistan founded in 1996 by former national cricket captain Imran Khan. PTI is the most rapidly growing political party of Pakistan, and has created a tri-party system, in which it opposes both the leftist People's Party and the conservative PML-N.
It is a Third Way, Centrist party which aims to create a welfare state, where the state is responsible for education, health and employability of citizens. It promotes freedom of thought, abolition of personal income tax and dismantling religious discrimination in Pakistan.
Directly following its founding in 1996, the party had little initial success. Khan won a seat in the Pakistani general election, 2002. The party boycotted the 2008 election, but in 2013 it received over 7.5 million votes, making it second in the number of votes and third in the number of seats won. Although it sits in opposition to the government at national level, the party governs Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a reflection of its consolidated support amongst ethnic Pashtuns.