Communist Party of Pakistan (abbreviation: CPP) is the vanguard of the working class and toiling masses plus deprived sections of the society. Anchored on the historic process and dynamics of Marxism-Leninism, the CPP under its subjective condition is in the political arena for the social change, free from exploitation of man by man.

The Communist Party of India (CPI) was the main political party of this undivided country. After the creation of the Pakistan, some old stalwarts of the CPI formed the CPP in 1948, which was banned in 1954 under American instructions and its top leadership were arrested and imprisoned in the so-called Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case.

After its ban, the CPP, which operated underground, worked as an integrated Communist force until the Sino-Soviet ideological question, causing rift in international Communist movements and subsequently the Party was divided into pro-Soviet and pro-Chinese factions. The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991 witnessed a terrible situation in Pakistan. The CPP was badly affected by the break-up of the Soviet Union. It split three times after the break-up of the Soviet Union.

And in 1994 the CPP and Mazdoor Kissan Party merged to form Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (CMKP) but immediately after the death of Chairman of CMKP, Comrade Imam Ali Nazish in March 1999, this merger only lasted for five years and eventually the CPP decided in 1999 to apart from CMKP and work openly within the down trodden masses and not as an underground party.

The CPP has never ever supported any military regimes including General Musharraf. Our Ex- Secretary General Hasan Nasir was tortured and murdered in Jail by General Ayub in 1962 and our other Ex-Secretary General Jami Saqi remained more than ten years long imprisonment by General Zia-ul-Haq from 1975 to 1987. Likewise young Comrade Nazir Abbasi, a CC member of CPP and others were also tortured and murdered by General Zia-ul-Haq during its military regimes.