Islami Jamhuri Ittihad

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The Islami Jamhuri Ittihad (IJI), also known by its English name Islamic Democratic Alliance (IDA), was a Pakistani political alliance existing between 1988 and 1993, consisting of nine right-wing conservative parties that opposed the democratic socialist and liberal Pakistan People's Party led by Benazir Bhutto. The alliance comprised nine parties, of which the major components were the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), National Peoples Party (NPP) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), with PML accounting for 80% of the IJI's electoral candidates. The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, under director Hamid Gul, had a major role in forming the right-of-centre political alliance. Care had been taken to ensure that the alliance comprised nine parties to generate comparison with the nine-party Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) that had campaigned against Zulfikar Ali Bhutto-led PPP in 1977. The IJI was considered a Zia ul-Haq loyalist alliance. The head of the party was Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, but its...

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