Siraj, 51, is the fifth elected Ameer of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan after Maulana Maudoodi, Mian Tufail Muhammad, Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Syed Munawar Hasan.The election team head, Abdul Hafeez Ahmed, announced the results at a press conference in Mansoora in the afternoon.
Ahmed said that the ballot papers were issued to 30,759 Arakan out of the total of 31,301 and as many as 25,533 ballot papers had been received. Thus, the voting was 85 percent. The five-year term of Munawar Hasan will end in April.
According to the JI election manifesto, the central Shoora nominated three persons for the top slot although the members were free to vote for anyone else.Like the former JI Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the newly-elected Ameer, Sirajul Haq, also hails from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Siraj was born in December 1962 in Samar Bagh, Dir. He remained the Nazim-e-Aala of Islami Jamiat Talaba from 1988 to 1991. He was elected a member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in 2002 but resigned in protest against a drone attack on a Madrassa in Dama Dolla.
He was re-elected an MPA in the last year elections and presently is the senior minister.Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has felicitated Sirajul Haq on becoming the JI Ameer. In a statement, the chief minister expressed the hope that Siraj would play a positive role for the promotion of democratic values.
Our Peshawar adds: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and Information Secretary Shireen Mazari on Sunday felicitated Sirajul Haq on becoming the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer and hoped his election would have a positive effect on national politics.
In a statement, they admired Sirajul Haq as an honest and untainted politician and hoped it was a good omen for promotion of clean politics in the country.They expressed the confidence that he would discharge his new responsibilities competently. The PTI leaders also congratulated the JI workers for choosing their leader through an election in the party.
The JI is coalition partner of the PTI in the provincial government and Sirajul Haq is one of the two senior ministers. He also holds the finance portfolio in the government. However, after his election, he might leave his position. If he does so, it would be the second time that he would be resigning as senior minister. In the MMA government, he had to quit as provincial minister to retain the office of the provincial chief of the party.
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