Islami Jamhoori Ittehad
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Islamic Democratic Alliance
اسلامی جمہوری اتحاد |
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IJI Flag
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| Leader | Nawaz Sharif |
| Founder | Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Dissolved | 1990 |
| Succeeded by | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
| Headquarters | Parliament lodges, Islamabad. |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Capitalism Muslim nationalism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Colors |
Green |
| Parliament |
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The Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (or IJI) English lit. Islamic Democratic Alliance, Acronym:(IDA, IJI) (Urdu: اسلامی جمہوری اتحاد) was a right-wing conservative alliance formed in September 1988 to oppose the democratic socialist Pakistan Peoples Party in elections that year. The alliance comprised nine parties, of which the major components were the Pakistan Muslim League (PML), National Peoples Party (NPP), 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 center-of-right 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 in 1977.
The head of the party was Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, but its most resourceful leader was Nawaz Sharif, a young industrialist whom Zia ul-Haq had appointed chief minister of Punjab. Sharif was vying for control of the Pakistan Muslim League, which was headed at that time by former Prime Minister Muhammad Khan Junejo.
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