Hafiz Naeem elected JI new emir

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader Hafiz Naeemur Rehman was elected as the party’s new emir on Thursday.

Islamabad: Hafiz Naeem elected JI new emir. Rehman was elected as the JI emir by majority. The new emir’s tenure will last . from 2024 to 2029.

This was the 19th election for the appointment of the JI emir.

82 per cent of the party workers had participated in the election of the emir.

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– Siraj-ul-Haq steps down as JI emir –

Earlier in February, Sirajul Haq stepped down as the JI emir following the defeat in the recently held elections.

The JI secured no seats in the National Assembly and got only two seats in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Assembly.

In 2014, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s senior minister and leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Sirajul Haq, was elected as the new ameer of the party.

Sirajul Haq replaced the then-outgoing chief Syed Munawar Hassan. The elections were at JI Headquarters Mansoora. Out of 31,311 office-bearers of the party, 25,533 people voted which Sirajul Haq managed to secure a majority of votes in 2014.

Siraj ul Haq remained party chief for a tenure of five years and he was re-elected in 2019. Now after serving the JI for 10 years, Siraj ul Haq resigned from his post.

Jamaat-e-Islami  is an Islamist movement founded in 1941 in British India by the Islamist author, theorist, and socio-political philosopher, Syed Abul Ala Maududi.^[3] It developed under the umbrella of Darul Uloom Deoband.

Along with the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, Jamaat-e-Islami was one of the original and most influential Islamist organisations, and the first of its kind to develop an ideology based on the modern revolutionary conception of Islam. This movement still has a significant legacy.

The group split into separate independent organisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh following the Partition of India in 1947. Other groups related to or inspired by Jamaat-e-Islami developed in Kashmir, Britain, and Afghanistan (see below). The Jamaat-e-Islami parties maintain ties internationally with other Muslim groups.

Islam is the ideology of the Jamaat-e-Islami. Its structure is based on its belief on the three-fold concept of the Oneness and sovereignty of God (Monotheism), the Concept of Prophethood and the Concept of Life after Death. From these fundamentals of belief follow the concepts of unity of all mankind, the purposefulness of man’s life, and the universality of the way of life taught by the Muhammed.