Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen

Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen مجلس وحدت مسلمین

Secretary General	Raja Nasir Abbas
Deputy Secretary General	Amin Shaheedi
Political Secretary	Syed Nasir Abbas
Central Spokesman	Hassan Zafar
Headquarters	Islamabad, Pakistan
Newspaper	Roznama Wahdat
Students & Women Wing	Wahdat Youth Wing & Wahdat Women Wing
Facebook	Majlis e Wahdat e Muslimeen Pakistan (Official)
Twitter	@mwmpakofficial
Ideology	Anti-Taliban Anti-Imperialism
Colors	Black, Red and green
Parliament of Pakistan	0 / 342
Balochistan Assembly	1 / 65 ^[1]
Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly	3 / 33 ^[2]
Election symbol

Website
www.mwmpak.org

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Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Pakistan (MWM) (Urdu: مجلس وحدت مسلمین‎) is a organization in Pakistan. The party is an Islamic anti-terrorist and pro-Shiite movement for an Islamic democratic welfare state, particularly emphasizing on Shiite-Sunni unity in the country. The party also has a strong presence in Qom, Iran and London, UK and some presence in the rest of the world. It is prospering and is in the 20 biggest political parties in Pakistan.

Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen's senior vice chairman, Muhammad Amin Shaheedi at the anniversary of Islamic revolution in Islamic Republic of Iran at Iranian Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan on February 11, 2014.

History

The Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen was founded by a group of Shiite Muslim clergy and former members of single largest Shiite students' organization Imamia Students Organization on August 2, 2009 in Islamabad, Pakistan. It has a prominent presence among the Shiite Muslims in the Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Baluchistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and in Azad Kashmir. The party's main perspective was/is to raise the voice against oppression on Pakistan's Shiite Muslim community, to establish goodwill with the Sunni Muslim community, to raise the political and religious awareness among the Shiite Muslims of Pakistan and to revive the teachings of the Holy Koran and Prophet Muhammad in the society.

Elections

Intra-party elections

The Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen's two-day convention was held at Islamabad on April 10, 2010 and April 11, 2010 to organize the election of a new secretary general for Pakistan's most prominent Shiite religio-political representative organisation. Delegates from Sindh, the provinces of the Punjab, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Kashmir cast their votes to elect a new secretary general for a term of 3-years.^[3]

General Elections, 2013

In an interview with The Express Tribune, the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen Karachi's political secretary, Syed Asghar Abbas Zaidi, said that the party’s aims were not only to gain seats but to change the system to the Islamic one. The Election Commission of Pakistan designated the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen as a political organization in the early 2013. The election commission also allotted Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen the tent as an electoral symbol. The Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen announced in March 2013 that in the 2013 general elections, it would field more than 50 candidates on provincial seats and 20 on national seats while in Karachi, 10 candidates would contest on the provincial slots and 11 on the national seats.^[4]

Results

The Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen's Agha Muhammad Raza has won a provincial assembly seat from Balochistan's PB-02 constituency on May 11, 2013 and as per statistics issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan, the MWM secure 41,520 votes in the National Assembly, 8799 in Baluchistan, 37,444 in the Punjab and 36,868 in Sindh assembly. As per the Election Commission of Pakistan's party wise vote bank, the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen was country’s 28th largest political party out of nearly 200 registered political parties.^[5]

Ties

Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen not only supported Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in the general elections but is also the first religio-political organization which was supported by Imran Khan and his party.^[6]

Sunni Tehreek, Minhaj-ul-Quran International, Sunni Ittehad Council and Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (despite being Sunni religio-political organizations) are the moral supporters of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (Shiite religio-political organization) and all of them are on one platform against Pakistani Taliban and its sub-groups such as Sipah-e-Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.^[7]

Work on Muslim unity

Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen and Sunni Ittehad Council held many huge gatherings in different cities of Pakistan to promote unity. Figures of minorities including Christians and Hindus were invited in these gatherings as well. The Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen says that they believe that unity is the only way out from sectarian tensions among the Muslims created by the enemies. They held gatherings in Kairpur, Islamabad, Gilgit, Karachi and many more places. ^[8]

Terrorist attacks on leaders, candidates & workers

April, 2013

On April 28, 2013, Hassan Kashmiri, a resident of Rizvia Society and an activist for the MWM was gunned down by the unidentified armed men. Following his funeral prayers in the same locality, the mourning procession took his body to the Wadi-e-Hussain graveyard to be buried. According to the Senior Superintendent of the Police, Imran Shoukat, as the procession was passing through the Liaquatabad area, some of the participants opened fired, killing two other people. The MWM condemned the attack on Kashmiri and denied that the participants of the procession had opened fire. However, the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba is accused for the attack.

While police were busy with Kashmiri’s case, an attack on a Shiite scholar near Liaquatabad No.10 left him injured and the police constable deployed for his security dead. The Senior Superintendent of the Police, Amir Farooqi said that Syed Baqar Hussain Zaidi was heading towards Rizvia Society where he resided along with 32-year-old Police Constable Syed Muhammed Qasim Jafri when four men on motorcycles opened fire on the car they were travelling in.

On 22 August 2014 Mazhar Haider and his younger brother Irfan Haider sustained bullet wounds. They were rushed to a private hospital where doctors pronounced the death of Irfan and admitted Mazhar with critical bullet wounds. MWM spokesman said Mazhar was the MWM president of district central. It was a targeted attack conducted by Sipah-e-Sahaba.

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