The Pakistan Muslim League Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ق); Pākistān Muslim Līg (Qāf), Acronyms: PML(Q), PML-Q, PMLQ, "Q League") is a political party in Pakistan. As of the 2018 parliamentary election, it has a representation of 5 seats. It previously served as an ally of former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf's government, and led a joint election campaign in 2013 alongside Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Punjab and Balochistan provinces against its rival Pakistan Muslim League (N), a fiscally conservative and centre-right force.
The Pakistan Muslim League (Functional) (Urdu: پاکستان مسلم لیگ (ف), acronym: PMLF, PML-F, PML (F)) is a nationalist and pro-Hurs clan political party in Pakistan. It is one of the Pakistan Muslim Leagues. The letter 'F' in its name stands for functional. It is primarily associated with the Sindhi religious leader Pir Pagara. It was formed in 1985 when the Pakistani establishment decided to make Muhammad Khan Junejo the president of united PML. In response, Pir Pagara Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II parted ways with the mother league and formed his own party.
Sanghar District (Sindhi: ضلعو سانگھڙ, Urdu: ضلع سانگھڑ) is one of the largest districts of Sindh province, Pakistan. This district lies between 25058'13 N latitudes and 69024'4E longitudes. It was a village before Mallah Tribe were settled there. This district has the largest Mallah tribe population. It has an area of 9874 square kilometres. It is located in the centre of Sindh and is bounded to the east by India. The district capital, Sanghar, is itself a small city roughly 35 miles (56 km) east-south-east of the city of Nawabshah and the same distance north of Mirpur Khas. Its primary industry is agriculture.
Hurs are a Sufist community in the province of Sindh, Pakistan who adhere to Sunni Islam. Their current spiritual leader is Pir of Pagaro VIII, who serves as a politician in the Provincial Assembly of Sindh.
Abdullah Shah Ghazi was a Muslim mystic and Sufi whose shrine is located in Clifton in Karachi, in Sindh province of Pakistan.
Sindh National Front (S.N.F.) was a political party active in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. It was led by Mumtaz Bhutto, the cousin of Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan, who was hanged by President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. In 2017, the party merged with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Ali Muhammad Rashdi (Urdu: پیر علی محمد راشدی was known for his roles as a writer, journalist, politician, parliamentarian, and diplomat. Notably, he served as Pakistan's ambassador to the Philippines from 1957 to 1961 and to China from 1961 to 1962. Rashdi also held ministerial positions in Sindh and served as the central minister for information and broadcasting, and the elder brother of scholar Hassam-ud-Din Rashidi.
Arbab Ghulam Rahim is a Pakistani politician who served as the Chief Minister of the Government of Sindh from 2004 until 2007.
Fahmida Mirza is a Pakistani politician who was Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination, in office from 20 August 2018 until 10 April 2022. She served as the 18th and only woman Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to June 2013.
Sayyid Sibghatullah Shah Al-Rashidi II, Pir Pagaro the sixth, was a spiritual leader of the Hurs during the Indian independence movement. Hur is a Sufi Muslim community in the province of Sindh. Sayyid Sibghatullah Shah Al-Rashidi was a champion of Hindu-Muslim unity, initially supporting the Indian National Congress and then the All India Forward Bloc.
Sir Hugh Dow was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who served as the governor of Sindh from 1941 to 1946. He also served as the British consul-general to Jerusalem from 1948 to 1951, after the independence of India from British colonial rule. The Dow Medical College is named after him.
Sayyid Shah Mardan Shah-II widely known as Pir of Pagaro VII was the spiritual leader of Hurs and president of political party Pakistan Muslim League (F). He was commonly known in Pakistan as Pir Sahib Pagara and Pir Shaab. He was an influential figure in Pakistani politics and the leader of Hur Force in Pakistan who also participated in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. He was also a first-class cricketer. He died on 10 January 2012 in London, due to liver infection.
Pir Syed Sadaruddin Shah Rashidi is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. He previously served as the Minister for Overseas Pakistanis.
Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister for Industries and Production, in Abbasi cabinet from August 2017 to May 2018. A former leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), Jatoi served as the Minister for Industries and Production in the third Sharif ministry. and previously held the cabinet portfolios of Minister for Communications during the first Sharif's ministry from 1990 to 1992, and as Minister for Overseas Pakistanis during the Second Bhutto ministry from 1993 to 1994.
Pir Jo Goth is a city in Pakistan situated in the Kingri Taluka of Khairpur District in the Sindh Province. It is the headquarter of Kingri taluka. Its population is approximately 110,000.
Muhammad Jadam Mangrio was a Pakistani politician who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to March 2013.
Syed Ali Mardan Shah was a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from 1988 until his death on 19 January 2020.
Jam Ikramullah Khan Dharejo is a Pakistani politician who had been a Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh from February 2008 till August 2023.
The Grand Democratic Alliance is a regionalist political alliance based in Sindh, Pakistan. It was founded on 23 October 2017 as a movement against the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government in Sindh, accusing it of poor governance, fascism and corruption. The alliance claims that the people of Sindh are unhappy with the PPP government.
