All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference | |
Native Name: | آل جموں و کشمیر مسلم کانفرنس |
Native Name Lang: | ur |
Abbreviation: | AJKMC, MC |
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President: | Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan[1] |
Leader2 Title: | Senior Vice President |
Leader2 Name: | Sardar Altaf Hussain Khan |
Secretary General: | Madam Mehrun-Nissa |
Founder: | Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah and Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas |
Split: | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference |
Headquarters: | Muzaffarabad |
Ideology: | Islamic democracy[2] Kashmiriyat[3] Pakistani nationalism[4] Kashmir unification with Pakistan[5] |
Colors: | Orange |
Seats4 Title: | AJK Assembly |
Country: | Pakistan |
The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (Urdu: آل جموں و کشمیر مسلم کانفرنس) also shortly referred as Muslim Conference (MC) is a political party in Pakistan administered territory of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.[6] The party was founded by Chaudhry Ghulam Abbas, Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah 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.
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.
The Muslim Conference has ever since held the reins of power in Azad Kashmir, supported by the Government of Pakistan.