Bartering peaks for Senate election
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ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR/LAHORE: As the Senate elections are just round the corner, the ruling PTI and the component parties of the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) are engaged in hectic make-or-break negotiations to make new alliances for ensuring success of their candidates.
In order to win the support of MQM-Pakistan, a PPP delegation comprising Nasir Hussain Shah, Sharjeel Memon, Murtaza Wahab and Waqar Mehdi visited the MQM-P s office in Bahadurabad, Karachi on Saturday and offered to withdraw two of its candidates in favour of MQM-P in the Senate election. Following the meeting, the party leaders held a joint press conference where they announced the development.
Parties strike deals for Senate elections
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Bartering peaks for Senate elections
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January 10, 2021
This isn’t the first time that the JUI has suffered a split. Yet, it is very unlikely that this will cause any real damage to the political party
A new faction has emerged in Maulana Fazlur Rahman’s Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) after a revolt by four prominent members led by Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani.
As the party’s name suggests, it identified with Fazlur Rahman as it is commonly called JUI-F even though it was registered with the Election Commission of Pakistan as simply JUI.
This isn’t the first time that the JUI has suffered a split. Years ago, Maulana Samiul Haq left the party to form his own faction, JUI-S, named after him. However, it remained a small party and never posed a significant challenge to the JUI-F. Its only electoral success came in the 2002 general election when it became part of the six-party religious alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), that did well in the poll and went on to form the government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (