# Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba

Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (Urdu: اسلامی جمعیتِ طلبہ) abbr. IJT is the largest student organization in Pakistan. It was founded by 25 students on 23 December 1947 at Lahore, Pakistan. Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba is working in Pakistan to eliminate the non-Islamic elements and secularism from the curriculum and teachings of the educational institutions of Pakistan. It is a member of the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations and the World Assembly of Muslim Youth.
IJT was influenced mainly by the works of the late Syed Abul-Ala Maududi and Maulana Naeem Siddiqui. It is an Islamic organization whose stated mission is to preach Islam to students of modern institutions throughout Pakistan. From the 1970s until about the early 1990s it was also the main ideological engine powering the concept of political Islam on the country's university and college campuses. It attempts to promote its vision of Islamic values and glorify the image of Islam through various means. Its main fields are the modern educational institutions, i.e. colleges and universities across Pakistan, though many local sub-divisions are active at the school level, like Bazm-e-Sathi (Sindh), Bazm-e-Paigham (Punjab), Bazm-e-Roshni (AJK & GB), Bazm-e-Shahbaz (Balochistan), Bazm-e-Shaheen (KPK) under the Islamic Society of Children Hobbies.

## History

Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba was founded on 23 December 1947 in Lahore by a group of 25 students with the vision of creating an Islamic society based on the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah. It is one of the oldest student organizations in Pakistan. The headquarters of IJT is in the city of Lahore. The women's wing of the organization, with the same ideology but with a separate structure and leadership, is known as Islami Jamiat-e-Talibaat. Its main fields are the modern educational institutions, i.e. colleges and universities across Pakistan, though its local sub-division Bazm-e-Gul is active at school level all over Pakistan.
It has a counterpart of the same ideology but with a complete, separate and independent structure and organisation, known as Jamiat Talaba Arabia Pakistan. (JT Arabia works in religious institutions of Pakistan.) After the independence of Bangladesh 1971, the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba or Islami Chattro Shongho in what was East Pakistan was succeeded by the Islami Chhatra Shibir.
Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba is continuously struggling by keeping their voice up for the revival of students unions after the ban.

### Motto

Islami Jamiat Talaba's purpose or motto is "to seek the pleasure of Allah SWT through human capital development by subscribing to the rule established by Allah SWT and his last messenger Muhammad (PBUH)."
* Dawah (Call to Allah) - Conveying the message of Islam to the students and inspiring them to acquire knowledge and to arouse in them the sense of responsibility to practice Islam in full.
* Organization - To organize the students who are ready to partake in the struggle for establishing the Islamic way of life within the fold of this organization.
* Training - To take appropriate steps to impart Islamic knowledge among the students integrated under the organization to make them men of character, capable of braving the challenges of Jahilyah and, thus, to prove the superiority of Islam.
* Islamic Education Movement and Student-oriented Problems - To struggle for changing the existing system of education on the basis of Islamic values to build up ideal citizens and enhance leadership to solve real problems of the students.
* Establishing Islamic Social Order - To strive tooth-and-nail to establish Islamic social order for freeing humanity from all forms of economic exploitation, political oppression and cultural servitude.

## List of chief administrators

| No. | Year(s) | Name |
| 1 | December 1947– October 1950 | Zafarullah Khan |
| 2 | November 1950 – September 1951 | Mohammad Naseem |
| 3 | October 1951 – October 1952 | Khurram Murad |
| 4 | November 1952 – July 1953 | Israr Ahmad |
| 5 | August 1953 – October 1953 | Murad Ali Shah |
| 6 | November 1953 – September 1955 | Khurshid Ahmad |
| 7 | October 1955 – December 1956 | Hussain Khan |
| 8 | December 1957 – October 1958 | Absar Alam |
| 9 | November 1958 – November 1962 | Mohammad Hussain Khan |
| 10 | December 1962 – November 1964 | Mehboob Ali |
| 11 | December 1964 – October 1967 | Syed Munawar Hassan |
| 12 | November 1967 – November 1969 | Kamal Khan |
| 13 | November 1969 – September 1971 | Motiur Rahman Nizami |
| 14 | October 1971 – August 1972 | Tasneem Alam Manzar |
| 15 | September 1972 – September 1975 | Zafar Jamal Baloch |
| 16 | October 1975 – September 1977 | Abdul Malik Mujahid |
| 17 | October 1977 – August 1979 | Liaqat Baloch |
| 18 | September 1979 – September 1982 | Shabbir Ahmad |
| 19 | October 1982 – June 1984 | Mairajuddin Khan |
| 20 | July 1984 – August 1984 | Ejaz Chaudhry |
| 21 | September 1984 – August 1986 | Syed Rashid Naseem |
| 22 | October 1986 – September 1988 | Ameer Azeem |
| 23 | October 1988 – September 1991 | Sirajul Haq |
| 24 | October 1991 – September 1993 | Izharul Haq |
| 25 | October 1993 – January 1995 | Owais Qasim |
| 26 | February 1995 – January 1998 | Waqas Anjum Jafry |
| 27 | February 1998 – February 2000 | Hafiz Naeem Rehman |
| 28 | February 2000 – February 2002 | Mushtaq Ahmad Khan |
| 29 | February 2002 – February 2004 | Navaid Anwar |
| 30 | February 2004 – February 2006 | Zubair Ahmad Gondal |
| 31 | February 2006 – February 2008 | Nasrullah Goraya |
| 32 | February 2008 – February 2010 | Ateeq Rehman |
| 33 | February 2010 – February 2012 | Syed Abdul Rasheed |
| 34 | February 2012 – February 2014 | Zubair Safdar |
| 35 | February 2014 – February 2016 | Zubair Hafeez Shaikh |
| 36 | February 2016 – February 2018 | Sohaibuddin Kakakhel |
| 37 | February 2018 – February 2020 | Muhammad Amir Nagra |
| 38 | February 2020 – February 2022 | Hamza Siddiqui |
| 39 | February 2022 – February 2024 | Shakeel Ahmad |
| 40 | February 2024 – Present | Hassan Bilal Hashmi |

## Controversies

Members of IJT have been accused of carrying out racially/ethnically motivated assaults and violence, as well as of having links with militant groups. The IJT, however, has denied any such links.

## Notable alumni

* Abdul Qadeer Khan
* Ansar Abbasi
* Qazi Hussain Ahmed
* Sohail Ahmed
* Wajihuddin Ahmed
* Arif Alvi
* Amir Cheema
* Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan
* Hussain Haqqani
* Javed Hashmi
* Ahsan Iqbal
* Orya Maqbool Jan
* Qamar Zaman Kaira
* Abdul Qadeer Khan
* Karnal Sher Khan
* Mushahid Ullah Khan
* Shahid Masood
* Abdul Malik Mujahid
* Asad Qaiser
* Khawaja Saad Rafique
* Saleem Safi
* Raheel Sharif
* Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui
* Qamar Javed Bajwa
* Ali Muhammad Khan
* Motiur Rahman Nizami
* Mir Quasem Ali
* Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed
* Muhammad Kamaruzzaman
* Abdul Quader Mollah
* Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin
* Ashrafuz Zaman Khan