Pakistan Muslim League (J)

The Pakistan Muslim League (J) (Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ ج) was a political party in Pakistan established in 1993. It merged with PML-Q in 2004.

It is one of the factions of the original Pakistan Muslim League, named "J" after Junejo. It was created in 1986 as the sole Pakistan Muslim League when Muhammad Khan Junejo was the Prime Minister of Pakistan under President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. In September 1988, the party formed an alliance called Islami Jamhoori Ittehad with Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi's National Peoples Party, and Qazi Hussain Ahmed's Jamaat-e-Islami against Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party for the 1988 general elections. During that time Nawaz Sharif became the most prominent politician outside PPP, and eventually became the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1990.

After Junejo dismissed by Gen Zia ul Haq, Nawaz Sharif parted with the PML, and created his own faction called the PML (N), which became a major political party far more influential than the original PML. Junejo's death also marked the formation of PML (Junejo) in 1993 led by his supporters including Hamid Nasir Chattha and Iqbal Ahmed Khan.

There was a party split within PML (Junejo) when Manzoor Wattoo in 1995 parted ways with his cousin Hamid Nasir Chattha and created his own PML (Jinnah). The party broke because Chattha wanted to be the president of PML (Junejo), much to the annoyance of Wattoo. The differences cropped up in the same year when Wattoo was removed as the Punjab Chief Minister in the power struggle between the province (headed by PML (Junejo) and the center (headed by rival PPP), leading Arif Nakai another PML (Junejo) candidate to be the new Chief Minister.

At the 2002 general elections held on October 20, the party won 0.7% of the popular vote and 2 out of 272 elected members. Hamid Nasir Chattha was the head of the party.

In May 2004, PML-J merged with PML-Q along with other parties to form united PML.^[1]

In 2008 general elections, Hamid Nasir Chattha, being part of ruling PML-Q, lost his National Assembly seat.

References

↑ Mumtaz, Ashraf (May 20, 2004). "Parties to inform EC about merger with PML". Dawn.

Political parties in Pakistan

Recognised national parties	Pakistan Muslim League (N) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Pakistan Peoples Party

Recognised provincial parties	Awami National Party Balochistan National Party Balochistan National Party (Awami) Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) Jamaat-e-Islami Muttahida Qaumi Movement National Party Pakhtun-khwa Milli Awami Party Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) Pakistan Muslim League (Q)

Other parties in parliament	All Pakistan Muslim League Awami Jamhuri Ittehad Pakistan Awami Muslim League National Peoples Party Pakistan Muslim League (Z) Qaumi Watan Party

Unrecognised parties or parties with limited presence	Awami Raaj Tahreek Sunni Ittehad Council Sunni Tehreek Green Party of Pakistan Communist Party of Pakistan Hizb ut-Tahrir Pakistan Peoples Party Workers Pakistan Christian Congress Muhajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) Jammu Kashmir Peoples Party Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party Sindh United Party Tehrik-e-Jafaria Jamiat Ahle Hadith Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan Justice and Development Party Pakistan Awami Tahreek (Sindh) Hazara Democratic Party Pakistan National Muslim League Bahawalpur National Awami Party Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen

Portal:Politics List of political parties Politics of Pakistan

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, June 12, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.