All Jammu & Kashmir Patriotic Peoples Front, a political party in Jammu and Kashmir. The group is a pro-Indian faction, linked to the so-called counter-insurgents (paramilitaries). Muslim Mujahedin was an islamist guerrilla group, that turned themselves in to the government in 1995 and developed cooperation with the Indian army. Muslim Mujahedin had been formed as a splinter group of Hizb-ul-Mujahedin in 1993. Patriotic Peoples Front was formed by Muslim Mujahedin as a structure for contesting elections.
The forces of Muslim Mujahedin were demobilzed around 1997-1998, but later parts of the group reorganized.
After 1997 PPF supported Farooq Abdullah's Jammu & Kashmir National Conference government in Kashmir.
In the Lok Sabha elections 1999 the leader of PPF Ghulam Nabi Mir was a candidate in the constituency of Anantnag. He got 1 500 votes (1,46%).
In 2001 the PPF leader and Muslim Mujahedin chief commander Ghulam Nabi Mir was killed.
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