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The majority of the Pakistani Muslims belong to Sunni Islam. Muslims belong to different schools which are called Madhahib (singular: Madhhab) i.e., schools of jurisprudence (also 'Maktab-e-Fikr' (School of Thought) in Urdu ).) Estimates on the Sunni population in Pakistan range from 85% to 90%.
It is the largest decision-oriented intergovernmental organization that holds conferences every year called Islamic Summit pertaining to the issues concerning Muslim nations and the OIC's agenda. The 48th summit is scheduled to be held in Islamabad , Pakistan on 22 March 2022.
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. Islamabad is the nation's capital, while Karachi is its largest city and financial centre.
Jamaat-e-Islami ( Urdu: جماعتِ اسلامی, English: Islamic Party; abbreviated JI ), or Jamaat as it is commonly known, is an Islamist political party based in Pakistan and founded by Abul Ala Maududi . It is the Pakistani successor to Jamaat-e-Islami, which was founded in colonial India in 1941. [9] Its objective is the transformation ...
Islamabad (/ ɪ z ˈ l ɑː m ə b æ d /; Urdu: اسلامآباد, romanized: Islāmābād, listen ⓘ; transl. 'City of Islam') is the capital city of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city with a population of over 1.2 million people [5] [9] and is federally administered by the Pakistani government ...
History Faizan-e-Madinah in Karachi. Arshadul Qaudri and Islamic scholar Shah Ahmad Noorani, since 1973 head of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), along with other Pakistani Sunni scholars, selected Ilyas Qadri, who was the then Punjab president of Anjuman Talaba-e-Islam, JUP's youth wing, aged 23, as the head of Dawat-e-Islami at Dār-ul ´ulūm Amjadia.
Islamabad, Sargodha 2016 Pakistan and World News 50 Qum News: Weekly Karachi, Hyderabad, shikarpur and whole Pakistan 2017 Founded by Rasheed Azad 51 Christian Voice: English Karachi 1950 Second oldest Catholic publication in Pakistan 52 Indus News: Daily Sindhi: Islamabad: 2010
Islamization ( Urdu: اسلامی حکمرانی) or Shariazation, has a long history in Pakistan since the 1950s, but it became the primary policy, [1] or "centerpiece" [2] of the government of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the ruler of Pakistan from 1977 until his death in 1988. Zia has also been called "the person most responsible for turning ...