Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI(F)) is a Sunni Deobandi political party in Pakistan, founded in 1947 as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. The party had the support of the strongly conservative countryside of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, and the party opposed Ayub Khan's modernization policies. In 1988, the modern JUI(F) split from the JUI due to dissent over the government's support of the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War, and it took the "F" from Fazl-ur-Rehman, the faction's leader. The party was opposed to changes in blasphemy laws, and it also was opposed to domestic violence laws, saying that its passage would promote Western culture in the Islamic state. By 2013, it was the fifth-largest party in Pakistan, and it was entirely based in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern Balochistan.
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