Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan

Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) (Urdu: جميعت علماءِ پاکستان) is an Islamist political party in Pakistan.

[7] JUP supported Ayub Khan's regime during the 1965 presidential elections on the promises of getting a Shariah-based Pakistan.

The party advocated the establishment of Islamic system of Prophet's Sunnah (Nizam-e-Mustafa) Shariat Courts and passing of law of blasphemy and played a role in declaring Ahmadis as non-Muslims.

In 1974 a bill was passed in the parliament to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims through the efforts of JUP President Shah Ahmad Noorani.

[11] It opposed to the US-led attack in Afghanistan after 9/11 but supported combating the Taliban and hardcore extremist ideologies in the Swat region of Pakistan.