The
Pakistan Socialist Party was a
political party in
Pakistan. It was formed out of the branches of the
Indian Socialist Party in the areas ceded to the new state of Pakistan. The PSP failed to make any political breakthrough in Pakistani politics. Being a
secular socialist party, which had strongly opposed the creation of the state Pakistan, the PSP found itself politically isolated and with little mass appeal. The party was labelled as traitors and
kafirs by its opponents. The PSP found it difficult to compete with the
Islamic socialism that
Liaquat Ali Khan professed to in 1949.