Jamaat-i-Islami

Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), also written Jamaat-i-Islami, is both Pakistan's oldest religious party, and an identity for a familiy of Islamic parties in several countries. While it is part of the legal political process, it is separate from the main Pakistani parties, the Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nazaf (PML-N). In general, explicitly Islamist parties have not been popular in Pakistani politics.

Five national organizations share a name and common ideas, but have no organizational relationship:
 * Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan
 * Jamaat-i-Islami Hind, an Indian organization open to coexistence with other religions, that spawned, in 1947, the Jamiat-ul-Ulama-i-Islam (JUH). JUH supported Pakistani independence..
 * Jamaat-i-Islami Bangladesh
 * Jamaat-i-Islami Sri Lanka
 * Jamaat-i-Islami Kashmir