Pakistan Muslim League (Z)

Pakistan Muslim League (Zia-ul-Haq Shaheed) (Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ض)) was a political party in Pakistan formed in 2002. It is named after General Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistan's president from 1978 to 1988. With the general elections of 2002, Ijaz-ul-Haq won the National Assembly seat, and merged with the Pervez Musharraf-endorsed Pakistan Muslim League (Q).[2] It gained the federal religious affairs ministry under Haq. After PML-Q was routed following the general elections of 2008, PML(Z) separated from the larger party in February 2010.

Pakistan Muslim League
(Zia-ul-Haq Shaheed)
پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ض)
AbbreviationPML(Z)
LeaderIjaz-ul-Haq
FoundedOctober 2002 (2002-10)
Dissolved19 March 2023
Split fromPakistan Muslim League (N)
Merged intoPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
HeadquartersBahawalnagar, Punjab
IdeologyPakistani nationalism
Conservatism
Islamism[1]
ColorsGreen
 
Election symbol
Helicopter
Website
www.pmlzia.com

In March 2010, PML(Z) successfully contested by-elections held in Bahawalnagar for Member of the Punjab Provincial Assembly, upsetting the Pakistan Peoples Party.[3] During the floods of 2010, the party also came to national attention for distributing relief goods worth millions of rupees in Southern Punjab.[4]

On October 9, 2011, PML(Z) became the only party to support the PML(N)'s threat to dissolve the Punjab Assembly and pre-empt the PPP's expected victory in the 2012 Senate elections.[5] In the general elections in 2013, PML(Z) contested two seats and won again from NA-191 Bahawalnagar in the National Assembly, and two seats in the Punjab Assembly. Haq's constituency NA-191 recorded the highest voter turnout in the country for 2013.[6]

In March, 2023, Ijaz-ul-Haq announced the party's merger into the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.[7]

Electoral history

National Assembly elections
National Assembly
Election Votes % Seats +/–
2002 78,798 0.27%
1 / 342
 Increase 1
2013 128,510 0.28%
1 / 342
 Increase 1
2018 1,406 0.00%
0 / 342
 Decrease 1

References
  1. Kepel, Gilles (2002). Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (2006 ed.). I.B.Tauris. pp. 100–101. ISBN 9781845112578. Retrieved 5 December 2014.
  2. "Parties to inform EC about merger with PML". Dawn. May 20, 2004.
  3. "PML-N wins NA-123, PP-82 slots". PakTribune. March 11, 2010.
  4. "PML-Z to distribute relief goods". Pakistan Daily. September 11, 2010. Archived from the original on March 22, 2012.
  5. "PML-N threatens to dissolve Punjab Assembly". Express Tribune. October 9, 2011.
  6. "Pakistan elections 2013 total voter turnout: 55%". Express Tribune. May 21, 2013.
  7. Dawn.com (2023-03-19). "PML-Z's Ijazul Haq joins PTI after party merger". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
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