Foundation It was founded by a committee of Shia ulema, and Syed Muhammad Dehlavi of Karachi was elected its first president. After his demise, Mufti Jafar Hussain was elected its president. After Mufti Jafar Hussain's demise, the young Arif Hussain al-Hussaini was asked by senior ulema like Marja' Grand Ayatollah
Muhammad Hussain Najafi and Safdar Hussain Najafi to accept the leadership. After Arif Hussain's assassination, Sajid Naqvi was elected the next president. Hassan Turabi was the head of party in Sindh province, like Taqi Naqvi heads the party in Punjab.
Internal split and Deaths After the death of Mufti Jafar Hussain, TNFH split into two groups: one headed by
Hamid Moosavi, the follower of
Ayatollah Shariatmadari; the other headed by Hussaini, the follower of
Khomeini’s teachings, respectively due to ideological differences between the two leaders. Under Hussaini, the party began to accept Sunni members, but it remained a religious organisation. Arif Hussain Hussaini, a student of
Ruhollah Khomeini who led the Iranian Revolution, was the group's leader. According to
BBC News: Later in 1988, Arif Hussain Hussaini changed the name of his group from TNFJ-Arif Hussaini group to
Tehreek-e-Jafaria (TJP) while Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi's group retained the name of TNFJ and has been operating under the same name since. After demise of Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi, Hussain Muqaddesi was elected as TNFJ Chief in October 2022. The TJP founder, Arif Hussain Hussaini was assassinated in 1988 by unknown attackers. Arif Hussain Hussaini, the patron-in-chief of the TJP, was shot dead in
Peshawar near his mosque/seminary while going to lead the morning prayer on August 5, 1988. Then T.J.P. was led by Hussaini's one of the foremost companions
Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi. On October 19, 2001, TJP leader Nazir Ahmed Abbas was shot and killed at his shop in the city of
Vehari, located in the
Punjab province. Following the death of Zia-ul-Haq, support for the TJP fell, as Pakistani Shias went back to pre-Zia-ul-Haq political loyalties, with many no longer feeling under threat. Furthermore, the elections of moderate
Benazir Bhutto also gave increased confidence to Shia Muslims and they were no longer under threat and the discrimination ended even though it still exist against the Pakistani Shias.
Sanctions On January 12, 2002, the TJP was banned along with three terrorist organizations, by the government of Pakistan. The TJP was banned twice by
Pervez Musharraf's government and in January 2002, its leaders were arrested. The T.J.P. was banned again on November 5, 2011, while Pakistan's Shias experienced increasing attacks since 2005 by the
Pakistani Taliban,
Sipah-e-Sahaba,
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,
Jundullah and
Turkistan Islamic Party. Although TJP had been designated as a "terrorist organisation",
Qazi Hussain Ahmad, a senior member of Pakistani Parliament and the leader of
Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan's oldest Islamist party, said the banned groups have no ties with the militants. He notes that one organization is part of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, the major opposition alliance of religious parties, which also includes Ahmad's group against
Pervaiz Musharraf. In March 2024, Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have conducted 229 intelligence-based operations in different districts of
Punjab to thwart incidents of
terrorism, in which 228 suspects were picked and interrogated. Of them, 23 alleged terrorists were arrested with weapons, explosives and other prohibited materials. The suspects allegedly belong to the banned militant outfits
Al-Qaeda,
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan,
Baloch Liberation Army,
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi,
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan,
Tehreek-i-Jafaria Pakistan and
Jaish-i-Mohammed. In September 2024, according to a spokesman of Pakistan
Counter Terrorism Department, CTD Punjab carried out 475 intelligence-based operations in different districts of Punjab in order to prevent terrorism attacks, during which 475 individuals were interrogated while 33 suspects possessing weapons, explosives, and other prohibited materials, were arrested. The arrested suspects belonged to banned organizations, isuch as
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan,
Fitnal Khwarji (
Pakistani Taliban),
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, the 133 Brigade,
Tehreek-e-Jafaria Pakistan,
Al-Qaeda,
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, [retired/former]
Zainebiyoun Brigade and others. They had been arrested during operations conducted in:
Gujranwala,
Hafizabad,
Mianwali,
Bahawalpur,
Nankana Sahib,
Lahore,
Khushab,
Jhang,
Attock,
Sargodha,
Sheikhupura,
Faisalabad,
Bahawalnagar,
Rawalpindi,
Bhakkar,
Hafizabad,
Narowal,
Attock,
Sahiwal and
Rahim Yar Khan, according to the CTD Punjab spokesperson. As per a list provided by the CTD of the 33 suspects, eight of them, the highest number, had been arrested from Lahore. During the operations, 4,895 grams of explosives, 2 hand grenades, 2 IEDs (
improvised explosive devices), 26 detonators, 73 feet of safety fuse wire, 4 pistols, 19 bullets, 17 pamphlets of banned organizations, 7 magazines, 15 boxes, 121 pamphlets, 156 stickers, 4 receipt books, 2 mobile phones and Rs 99,660 in cash had been recovered from the suspects. ==Ideology==