Sovereignty First
Muslim Solidarity
Justice & Equity
Strategic Balance
Sovereignty First
Muslim Solidarity
Justice & Equity
Strategic Balance
Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami emerged from the former East Pakistan organisation and later developed as an independent national movement. Despite decades of repression, imprisonment and executions, relations between the two organisations have remained based on shared intellectual origins, Islamic brotherhood and mutual concern.
JI views ECO — connecting Pakistan with Central Asia, Iran, Türkiye, and Afghanistan — as an underutilised framework for building an economically sovereign regional bloc.
JI fully supports Pakistan's engagement with international legal mechanisms — including the ICJ and ICC — when used to hold aggressors accountable. JI particularly backs South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ and calls on Pakistan to join as a party.
Jamaat-e-Islami has consistently argued that Pakistan has historically subordinated its foreign policy to external powers — sacrificing strategic independence for aid, security guarantees, and elite access. JI views this as a fundamental error that has diminished Pakistan's standing, created dangerous dependencies, and tied the country to conflicts that serve others' interests.
JI's alternative is a self-reliant, principled foreign policy: one that prioritises economic diplomacy over military alignment, builds genuine partnerships with the Muslim world, and speaks with a moral voice on global injustices. This does not mean isolationism — it means dignity.
Pakistan must not bind itself to any superpower bloc. Relations with the US, China, and Russia should serve Pakistani interests — not be shaped by loyalty or fear.
Pakistan does not need to choose between East and West, between great powers or regional blocs. It needs to choose itself — its own people, its own sovereignty, its own moral compass. That is the foreign policy Jamaat-e-Islami has always stood for.
Jamaat-e-Islami Foreign Policy Statement