Nizam-e-Mustafa

The Nizam-e-Mustafa (Urdu: تحریک نظام مصطفی, lit. 'Movement of the System of the Prophet') was a populist, Islamist movement and a slogan which was started in Pakistan by the Jamat-e-Islami and the Pakistan National Alliance (PNA) in 1977, to overthrow the secular and socialist government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and establish an Islamic system in Pakistan, inspired from the Sharia, the PNA, which had started this movement believed that the 1977 Elections of Pakistan had been rigged by Bhutto, and therefore, lacked any legitimacy. The movement took placed from March 7th to July 5th, spanning roughly 120 days.

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