Muslim Conference - Media Cell

The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference is a one of two major political parties in the Pakistan-ruled part of Kashmir. In 1932 Sheik Abdullah formed Kashmir's first political party, the All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference, with a demand for merger of Kashmir into India. His party was renamed the National Conference in 1939 to suite the secular nature of Kashmiri culture. The All Jammu and Ka

shmir National Conference, led by Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, espoused a secular ideology and wished to create a secular, democratic but independent Kashmir with close ties to India. When the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference was converted into a secular political party in 1939, the Muslim leaders amended the Constitution of the Muslim Conference, renamed it as the All Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, modified its objectives and threw its membership open to all the people of the State. On 13 June 1941, the breakaway factions of the National Conference revived the erstwhile Muslim Conference. The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference, which led the Muslim movement for Pakistan in the State, apparantly on the instructions of the Muslim League, initially declared its support for an independent Jammu and Kashmir State. Before the approval of the Partition of India Plan, Kashmiris had made a decision in regard to their future. On July 19, 1947, a convention of All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference held in Srinagar, adopted the "Accession to Pakistan Resolution" demanding accession of the Kashmir state to Pakistan. It was Sardar Ibrahim's house in Srinagar that the AJKMC working committee meeting passed the resolution seeking Kashmir's accession to Pakistan, reversing an earlier resolution for the state's independence. A government led by Sardar Ibrahim was formed on Oct 24, 1947, after he arrived in Pakistan from Srinagar in disguise. After the Civil Disobedience Movement [of 1950-51], the Government of Pakistan had come to an agreement with the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference that all cases of political nature would not be prosecuted. In 1955 the All-Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference was the political party nominally in power in Pakistan-held Kashmir. In July 2001 the stage was set for All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference to form government in Azad Kashmir as it gained a majority in the AJK Legislative Assembly elections, defeating its nearest rival, the AJK branch of Pakistan Peoples Party. The main political parties contesting the election were Pakistan People's Party, the All-Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference and the Jamaat-e-Islami. The Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) decided to boycott the elections after the rejection of nomination papers for 25 JKLF candidates. Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan of the All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference was the new Prime Minister of the Pak Occupied Kashmir (PoK). The All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference (AJKMC) was led by former rebel Sardar Abdul Qayyum.