The Pakistan Muslim League (J) (

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established in 1988. It is one of the factions of the original

Pakistan Muslim League The Pakistan Muslim League ( ur, ; known as PML), is the name of several different Pakistani political parties that have dominated the right-wing platform in the country. The Muslim League (a different party) was the party of Pakistan’ ...

, named "J" after Muhammad Khan Junejo. It was created in 1986 as the sole Pakistan Muslim League when Muhammad Khan Junejo was the

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under President

Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq HI, GCSJ, ร.ม.ภ, (Urdu: ; 12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani four-star general and politician who became the sixth President of Pakistan following a coup and declaration of martial law in ...

. In September 1988, the party formed an alliance called

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with

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's National Peoples Party, and Qazi Hussain Ahmed's

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against

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...

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for the 1988 general elections. During that time

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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

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, 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 Chaudhry Hamid Nasir Chattha ( ur, حامد ناصر چٹھا) is a politician from Wazirabad, Punjab, Pakistan. He was born on November 15, 1944 in Lahore. Hamid Nasir Chattha is currently a Member of Punjab Assembly, Pakistan after losing in ...

,Iqbal Ahmed Khan, Manzoor Wattoo,

Akhtar Ali Vario Chaudhry Akhtar Ali Vario ( ur, چوہدری اختر علی آف وریو) was a Pakistani politician and head of the Vario family of Sialkot District, Punjab province. He was one of the founding members of the Pakistan Muslim League (Junejo ...

and Sardar Arif Nakai. There was a party split within PML (Junejo) when Manzoor Wattoo in 1995 parted ways with his cousin

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. In 2008 general elections, Hamid Nasir Chattha, being part of ruling PML-Q, lost his National Assembly seat. However, in 2013, Hamid Nasir Chatta announced to revive the PML-Junejo again and contested the general elections on the platform of PML-J but the party didn't get any seat in 2013 general elections. As of 2013, the party's current leader is Muhammad Iqbal Dar.

Electoral history

National Assembly elections

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pakistan Muslim League (J) Political parties in Pakistan Muslim League Muslim League breakaway groups 1993 establishments in Pakistan Pakistan Muslim League (Q)