Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan
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The Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (Urdu: جميعات علماء پاکستان) (Assembly of Pakistani Clergy) is a political party in Pakistan. It is part of the Islamic fundamentalist Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, that won at the last legislative elections, 20 October 2002, 11.3 of the popular vote and 53 out of 272 elected members.
It is of the barelvi school of Islamic thinking and was founded and headed until 2004 by the late Allama Shah Ahmad Noorani Siddiqi.