With elections for the National Assembly being held in June, the three major parties in Pakistan have been campaigning in earnest.

The three major parties, and their respective leaders are:

• Pakistan Muslim League (N), lead by Shehbaz Sharif: The PML-N is Pakistan's center-right party, which is lead by the brother of recently deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Despite winning a clear plurality of votes in the 2013 election, Prime Minister Sharif resigned in July of 2017 after the Supreme Court of Pakistan disqualified him from office. The case centered around the Sharif family's holdings and disclosures following the Panama Papers leak. Political observers had hoped Sharif would be the first prime minister to complete a term in office. This had negatively affected the popularity of the party as a whole, especially with another Sharif leading the party into the next elections. Alleged corruption playing a large role.

• Pakistan People's Party, lead by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari: The PPP is a left-wing progressive party in Pakistan, intimately tied to the Bhutto family. The party was founded by Bilawal's grandfather, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was executed by the military government of Zia ul-Haq, and had risen to international prominence under the control of his mother Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated by Islamic extremists in 2007. With a member of the Bhutto family again at the head of the party, its base is likely to be energized, though opinions of the family are well set in Pakistani politics.

• Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, lead by Imran Khan: challenging the traditional two party dichotomy is the PTI, which gained 17% of the seats in its first national election in 2013. Its leader is a former Pakistan cricket captain, and the party largely centrist. He is described as a populist, calling for Islamic values, liberal economics, deregulation, strong anti-corruption laws and a government free of influence from both militants and the military.