People in the profession of Arms retire young. They devote best part of their life to the defence of the country and then revert to civil lifer land are known as ex-servicemen. In August 1990 they felt the need of having a forum to address ever - increasing hardships being faced by them. Thus PESS came into being in 1991 as a welfare oriented, non political in character and voluntary in membership to address ever-mounting problems of the ex-servicemen and to ensure a respectable place for themselves in our national society. It is organized at all levels from village to the national level. It has 112 Tehsil units ie chapters. It has a National Council comprising elected members from all the chapters finally adopting to role of Supreme Governing Body which formulates policies, plans and programmes. There is a National Working Committee which meets once a week under the President of the Society duly elected by the National Council. PESS owes the genesis of its present organizational set up on the natural existence of the post retirement location of its members who lives in a congenial atmosphere of understanding, discipline and mutual respect which lends fertility and strength to futuristic idea of community development.

Since its inception the PESS has been seeing the unabashed plunder of the nations wealth by the ruling elites ands their families, combined with gross financial mismanagement and undemocratic style of governance bringing country to the brink of instability and economic collapse. It observed that majority of the public office holders of the country got stuck up in obnoxious corruption scandals, malpractices and mismanagement during the last twenty years and as a result thereof they ruined the country and lost the confidence of majority of the people at large. Thus against this backlash the PESS members during the National Working Committee and National Council meeting started showing their concern in the law and order situation, economical and political conditions of the country with particular reference to the areas in which they were residing. In the 28th National Council meetings in March 1999 it was felt that the PESS should not sit back as silent spectators to the deteriorating overall conditions in the country. Hence a political think tank was created to keep the members abreast of the changing conditions in the country. On 12 Sep 1999 it was discussed and approved by the National Council Meeting that the think tank should operate under the name of Tehreek-e-Tameer-e-Pakistan and act as a nucleus to create an awakening to work for building Pakistan on the guide lines given by the Father of the Nation to the Constituent Assembly on 11 Aug 1947. It was planned to have the Founding National Convention after a minimum of one thousand Founding Members had been enrolled. As the Army took over the control of the country on 12 Oct 1999 issuance of the manifesto was postponed to a later suitable date, (was subsequently issued in January 2000). It also decided that in case of an encouraging response political work, independently of the PESS, would start the name of Tameer-e-Pakistan Party as a middle-of the-way national political party.

Thanks to Allah that PESS was successful in holding the Founding National Convention of the Tameer-e-Pakistan Party on 29 October 2000 at Rawalpindi Cantt. It was heavily attended by hundreds of TPP, founder-members hailing from all walks of life and related to various trades and professions from all over Pakistan. The number of Foundering Members on the Convention Day was 1410 out of which 760 physically attended the Convention. Some of the absentee members had sent their proxy votes. Lt.Gen. FAIZ ALI CHISHTI (Rtd) was unanimously elected as Founder President of the TPP for a period of three years. He was also unanimously granted a clear mandate to the effect that the President would, of his own sweet will nominate a team of office holders at the Centre as well as the Provincial level to run the party. However, in keeping with the democratic spirit, the President announced a National Council of fifty party members to assist him in the selective nominations.