Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
جماعتِ اسلامی |
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Ameer | Siraj ul Haq |
General Secretary | Liaqat Baloch |
Naib Ameer |
Khurshid Ahmed, Mian Muhammad Aslam, Rashid Naseem, Asad ullah Bhutto, Hafiz Muhammad Idress , Professor Muhammad Ibrahim , Dr. Fareed Ahmed Paracha . |
Provincial Ameer |
Dr.Meraj ul Huda Siddiqui (Sindh), Mushtaq Ahmed Khan (KPK), Mian Maqsood Ahmed (Punjab), Molana Abdul Haq Hashmi (Balochistan). |
Founder | Sayyid Abul A'la Maududi |
Founded | 26 August 1941 |
Headquarters | Mansoorah, Lahore, Pakistan |
Ideology |
Islamism Islamic democracy |
Political position | Right-wing |
International affiliation |
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami |
Colors | Green, white, blue |
Senate |
1 / 104
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National Assembly |
4 / 342
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Punjab Assembly |
1 / 371
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Pakhtunkhwa Assembly |
7 / 124
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Election symbol | |
Scale | |
Website | |
www |
Jamaat-e-Islami (Urdu: جماعتِ اسلامی, JI) is a social conservative, and Islamist political party. Its objective is to make Pakistan an Islamic state, governed by Sharia law, through a gradual legal, and political process. JI strongly opposes capitalism, liberalism, socialism and secularism as well as economic practices such as offering bank interest. JI is a vanguard party: its members form an elite with "affiliates" and then "sympathizers" beneath them. The party leader is called an ameer. Although it does not have a large popular following, the party is quite influential and considered one of the major Islamic movements in Pakistan, along with Deobandi and Barelvi.
JI came to its modern foundation in Lahore in 1941 in British India by the Muslim theologian and socio-political philosopher, Abul Ala Maududi. In 1947, JI moved its operations to West Pakistan after independence. Members who remained in India formed an independent organisation, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind.