Jan Mohammad Abbasi (

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جان محمدعباسي) was the

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Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (JIP), is a Pakistani Islamism, Islamist political party. It is the Pakistani successor to Jamaat-e-Islami, which was founded in colonial India in 1941. JIP is a "vanguard party", whose members are intended to be leade ...

Contribution

Abbasi had been the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan's

vice president A vice president or vice-president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vi ...

for 27 years. He had earlier served the

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as its Sindh chief. He contested the

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against the founder of the Pakistan People's Party

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979) was a Pakistani barrister and politician who served as the fourth president of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and later as the ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan from 19 ...

from the Larkana constituency. Unfortunately, he was kidnapped, therefore Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto ultimately won the elections as there was no opposition

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Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan (official)
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