Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Senior Minister and leader of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Sirajul Haq, was elected on Sunday as the new ameer of the party replacing Syed Munawar Hassan,
A meeting of the party’s consultative body was held at Mansoora during which election for the post of the party chief took place.
The three contenders who participated in the polls were Sirajul Haq, outgoing party chief Syed Munawar Hassan and the party’s general secretary Liaqat Baloch.
The former supreme of the JI “Syed Munawar Hassan” had offered to resign last year after the party’s defeat in the national elections of 2013. More ever, his increasingly controversial statements regarding the army and the Taliban had alienated him from the party rank and file.
Out of 31,311 office-bearer’s of the party, 25,533 people voted in which Sirajul Haq managed to secure majority of votes.
The party chief is elected for a tenure of five years.
Haq is a senior member of the party and is well-versed in several languages including Urdu, Pashto, Persian, Arabic and others.
Haq has been deputy chief of the JI since 2009.
