Niue
Niue People's Action Party or NPP [Young VIVIAN]; Alliance of
Independents or AI [leader NA]

Norfolk Island
none

Northern Mariana Islands
Democratic Party [Dr. Carlos S. CAMACHO];
Republican Party [NA]; Covenant Party [Benigno R. FITIAL]

Norway
Center Party [Aslaug Marie HAGA]; Christian People's Party
[Dagfinn HOYBRATEN]; Coastal Party [Steinar BASTESEN]; Conservative
Party [Erna SOLBERG]; Labor Party [Jens STOLTENBERG]; Liberal Party
[Lars SPONHEIM]; Progress Party [Carl I. HAGEN]; Socialist Left
Party [Kristin HALVORSEN]

Oman
none

Pakistan
Awami National Party or ANP [Wali KHAN]; Balochistan
National Movement/Hayee Group or BNM/H [Dr. Hayee BALUCH]; Baluch
National Party-Mengal or BNP/M [Sardar Ataullah MENGAL]; Baluch
National Party/Awami or BNP/Awami [Moheem Khan BALOCH]; Jamhoori
Watan Party or JWP [Akbar Khan BUGTI]; Jamiat-al-Hadith or JAH
[Sajid MIR]; Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Fazlur Rehman faction or JUI/F
[Fazlur REHMAN]; Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, Sami ul-HAQ faction or JUI/S
[Sami ul-HAQ]; Jamiat-i-Islami or JI [Qazi Hussain AHMED]; Jamiat
Ulema-i-Pakistan or JUP [Shah Faridul HAQ]; Millat Party or MP
[Farooq LEGHARI]; Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Altaf faction or MQM/A
[Altaf HUSSAIN]; Muttahida Quami Movement, Haqiqi faction or MQM/H
[Afaq AHMAD]; Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal Pakistan or MMA [Qazi Hussain
AHMED]; National People's Party or NPP [Ghulam Mustapha JATOI];
Pakhtun Khwa Milli Awami Party or PkMAP [Mahmood Khan ACHAKZAI];
Pakhtun Quami Party or PQP [Mohammed Afzal KHAN]; Pakistan Awami
Tehrik or PAT [Tahir ul QADRI]; Pakistan Democratic Party or PDP
[Mehbooba Mufti SAYEED]; Pakistan Muslim League, Functional Group or
PML/F [Pir PAGARO]; Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif faction or
PML/N [Nawaz SHARIF]; Pakistan Muslim League or PML [Chaudhry
Shujaat HUSSAIN]; note - as of May 2004, the PML/Q changed its name
to PML and absorbed the PML/J, PML/Z, and NA; Pakistan National
Party or PNP [Hasil BIZENJO]; Pakistan People's Party or PPP [Aftab
Ahmed Khan SHERPAO]; Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians or
PPPP [Benazir BHUTTO]; Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf or PTI [Imran KHAN];
Tehrik-i-Islami [Allama Sajid NAQVI]
note: political alliances in Pakistan can shift frequently

Palau
none

Panama
Democratic Change or CD [Ricardo MARTINELLI]; Democratic
Revolutionary Party or PRD [Martin TORRIJOS]; National Liberal Party
or PLN [Anibal GALINDO]; Nationalist Republican Liberal Movement or
MOLIRENA [Jesus ROSAS]; Panamenista Party or PA (formerly the
Arnulfista Party) [Mireya Elisa MOSCOSO Rodriguez]; Popular Party or
PP (formerly Christian Democratic Party or PDC) [Ruben AROSEMENA];
Solidarity Party or PS [Jose Raul MULINO]

Papua New Guinea
Christian Democratic Party [Dr.Banare BUN, party
leader]; Melanesian Alliance Party or MAP [Sir Moi AVEL, party
leader]; National Alliance Party or NA [Michael SOMARE, party
leader; George MANOA, party president]; National Party [Melchior
PEP, party leader]; Papua and Niugini Union Party or PANGU [Chris
HAIVETA, party leader]; Papua New Guinea First Party [Cecilking
DORUBA, party leader]; Papua New Guinea Labor Party [Bob DANAYA,
party leader]; Papua New Guinea Party [Sir Mekere MORAUTA, party
leader]; People's Action Party or PAP [Moses MALADINA, party
leader]; People's Labor Party or PLP [Ekis ROPENU, party leader];
People's National Congress or PNC [Peter O'NEILL, party leader];
People's Progressive Party or PPP [Andrew BAING, party leader];
Pipol First Party [Luther WENGE, party leader]; Rural People's Party
[Peter NAMUS, party leader]; United Party [Bire KIMASOPA, party
leader]; United Resources Party or URP [Tim NEVILLE, party leader]
(2004)

Paraguay
Asociacion Nacional Republicana - Colorado Party or ANR
[Herminio CACERES, interim president]; Patria Querida (Beloved
Fatherland Party) or PQ [Pedro Nicolas Maraa FADUL Niella];
Movimiento Union Nacional de Ciudadanos Eticos or UNACE [Enrique
GONZALEZ Quintana, acting chairman]; Partido Encuentro Nacional or
PEN [Luis TORALES Kenney]; Partido Liberal Radical Autentico or PLRA
[Julio Cesar FRANCO]; Partido Pais Solidario or PPS [Carlos Alberto
FILIZZOLA Pallares]; note - Nicanor DUARTE Frutos on leave as party
leader of the Colorado Party or ANR while serving as President of
Paraguay; Lino Cesar OVIEDO Silva, leader of UNACE, is currently
serving a ten-year prison term