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| '''Jamaat-i-Islami (JI)''', also written '''Jamaat-i-Islami''', is both Pakistan's oldest religious party, and an identity for a family of Islamic parties in several countries. While it is part of the legal political process, it is separate from the main Pakistani parties, the [[Pakistan People's Party]] and the [[Pakistan Muslim League-Nazaf]] (PML-N). In general, explicitly Islamist parties have not been popular in Pakistani politics. <ref name=GS=JII>{{citation | | '''Jamaat-i-Islami (JI)''', also written '''Jamaat-i-Islami''', is Pakistan's oldest religious party. |
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| | url = http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/pakistan/ji.htm}}</ref> The most important, but still a minority, is the [[Jamiat-ul-Ulama-i-Islam]] (JUI).
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| Five national organizations share a name and common ideas, but have no organizational relationship:
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| *Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan (JIP)
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| *Jamaat-i-Islami Hind, an Indian organization open to coexistence with other religions, that spawned, in 1947, the JUI. JUH supported Pakistani independence..
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| *Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh
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| *Jamaat-i-Islami Sri Lanka
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| *Jamaat-i-Islami Kashmir
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| It has never been a major force in Pakistani politics, but is becoming more powerful in the semiautonomous areas of the Federally Administered Tribal Areass, [[North-West Frontier Province]], and [[Balochistan Province]].<ref name=Goodson>{{citation
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| | title = Afghanistan's Endless War: State Failure, Regional Politics and the Rise of the Taliban
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| | author = Larry P. Goodson
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| | publisher = University of Washington Press | year = 2001
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| | isbn = 0295980508}}, p. 161</ref>
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| The JIP was influential in the Pakistani Army of the 1980s, supporting [[Zia-al-Haqh]]. Its views on Islam were broadly consistent with that of the Muslim Brotherhood and its theoreticians, [[Hassan al-Banna]] and [[Sayyid Qutb]].<ref name=>{{citation
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| | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=N88sMSE1CR8C&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=Jamaat-e-Islami+Taliban&source=bl&ots=1Aof3b8YVP&sig=2mhQbUTjVPfI0K2NhsfGJWqmdbA&hl=en&ei=niwkSvGXNp_Ktget49zIBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2
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| |title =The rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: mass mobilization, civil war, and the future of the region
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| | author = Neamatollah Nojumi
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| |publisher = Palgrave Macmillan | year = 2002
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| |ISBN=0312294026
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| }}, p. 119</ref> More in line with government thinking was [[Jamait-e-Ulema-e-Islami-Pakistan]] (JUIP).
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