[4] The central committee may appoints many of the most powerful people in the country, including general-secretaries, presidents, vice-presidents of the party.

During the times of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, it acted as the highest party authority and had control over the enforcement of all economic, scientific, industrial, public and social policies in the country.

During the 1980s, it served as the ground base and the ideological headquarter of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD) to take down the Islamist military dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq.

[4] It is the highest organ of Party's structural leadership and plays a minor role in government policy formations and enforcement.

[citation needed] The Secretariat-General of the Central Executive Committee is currently headquartered in the People's Secretariat at the Parliament.