Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba

Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba 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, and 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 party, with the same ideology but with a separate structure and organisation, 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 Almighty by ordering human life in accordance with the principles laid down by Allah and His Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him)."
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
Controversies
Members of IJT have been accused of carrying out racially/ethnically motivated assaults and violence by some rival organizations. The IJT, however, has denied any such links.
Notable alumni
Ansar Abbasi
Shahid Khaqan 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
See also
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
References
External links
Official website
IJT official blog
An Islamic Video/Audio Portal :: A Project of Karachi Jamiat
1947 establishments in Pakistan
Far-right politics in Pakistan
Islamist groups
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
Student organizations established in 1947
Student religious organisations in Pakistan
Student wings of political parties in Pakistan
Students' federations of Pakistan