Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan

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Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP; Urdu: جماعت اسلامی پاکستان, romanized: Jamāt-e-Islāmī Pākistān) is a far-right Pakistani Islamist political party and pressure group. It is the Pakistani chapter of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a global Islamic movement founded in British India in 1941. JIP is a vanguard party, whose members are intended to be leaders spreading party beliefs and influence. JIP members are sometimes called Rafīq (meaning comrade in Arabic). Supporters not thought qualified to be members may become affiliates, and beneath them are sympathisers. 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 (represented by Jamiat Ulema-e Islam political party and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan party respectively). Jamaat-e-Islami was founded in Islamia Park, Lahore, British India in 1941 by the Muslim theologian and socio-political philosopher...

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