It was originally formed in 1979 under the name Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafaria (TNFJ) to resist anti-Shia laws (introduced by General Zia ul Haq during his martial law) by the late Mufti Jafar Hussain, the late Lieutenant Colonel Syed Fida Hussain Naqvi and others, and TJP effectively campaigned against Zia-ul-Haq by besieging the President's Secretariat, Islamabad for several days.[citation needed]