The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference () also shortly referred as Muslim Conference (MC) is a political party in
Pakistan administered territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.
The party was founded in 1941 by
Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas, and Syed Aziz Badshah of Dadyal in the former princely state of
Jammu and Kashmir as a splinter group of the
Jammu & Kashmir National Conference
The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) is a regional political party in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir (union territory), Jammu and Kashmir union territory and Ladakh. Founded as the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference by ...
, which toke the name the National Conference went by from its founding in October 1932 until June 1939.
After the Partition of India, the party supported the accession of the princely state to Pakistan, and instigated the
Poonch Rebellion against the Maharaja's government under the leadership of its legislator Sardar
Muhammad Ibrahim Khan. Pakistan, after turning the rebellion into an
outright invasion, installed Ibrahim Khan as the President of the rebel-controlled region, called
Azad Jammu and Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir ( ), is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee:
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See also
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Political movements during the Dogra rule
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1947 Poonch Rebellion
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Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan
References
Islamic political parties in Pakistan
Political parties in Azad Kashmir
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