The Pakistan Peoples Muslim League (PPML), formerly known as the Pakistan Muslim League (Like-Minded)[1] and abbreviated as PML (LM), was a political party in Pakistan led by former Chief Minister of Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim.
[2][3][4] The party was a breakaway faction of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q).
[5] It emerged in 2009 after many members of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) became disillusioned by the questionable decisions of the Chaudhrys of Gujrat who were alleged to be making important decisions without consulting any of the senior party members and making the party an undemocratic "family party."
This created a huge vacuum in the original PML (Q) and in 2011, more than half of its members in the Punjab Assembly decided to ditch their original party and join hands with the PML (N) to support Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif when the Pakistan Peoples Party was kicked out of the Punjab Government.
In May 2012, the Likeminded Group officially entered into an electoral alliance with Pakistan Muslim League (N) in a bid to unite all Muslim League factions and defeat opposing parties such as PTI and the ruling coalition of PPP and PML (Q).