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All Jammu and Kashmir Patriotic Peoples Front

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All Jammu & Kashmir Patriotic Peoples Front, a state political party in Jammu and Kashmir. The group is a pro-Indian faction, linked to the so-called counter-insurgent or paramilitary forces. Their origins lie in the Muslim Mujahedin group (itself a splinter group from Hizb-ul-Mujahedin). The Muslim Mujahedin group was a former islamist guerrilla group that turned themselves in to the government in 1995 and developed cooperation with the Indian army. Between 1997-1998, the forces of the Muslim Mujahedin group were demobilized, and the remaining members reorganized as the The Patriotic Peoples Front.

After 1997, the PPF supported Farooq Abdullah's Jammu & Kashmir National Conference government in Kashmir.

In the Lok Sabha elections of 1999, the leader of PPF, Ghulam Nabi Mir, was a candidate in the constituency of Anantnag district. He received 1,500 votes, or 1.46% of the total, earning him a seat in the Lok Sabha. Ghulam Nabi Mir was shot to death outside his residence by Hizbul Mujahideen militants on June 16, 2001

The PPF does not currently have any seats in the assembly of Jammu and Kashmir.

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All Jammu & Kashmir Patriotic Peoples Front Wikipedia