Fazal-ur-Rehman (politician)

For other people of the same name, see Fazl ur Rahman (disambiguation).

Fazal-ur-Rehman مولانا فضل الرحمٰن
Leader of the Opposition
In office 20 August 2004 – 25 March 2008
Preceded by	Benazir Bhutto
Succeeded by	Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi
Personal details
Born	19 June 1953 (1953-06-19) Abdul Khel, British Raj (now Pakistan)
Political party	Assembly of Islamic Clergy
Other political affiliations	United Council of Action (2002–2008)

Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman (مولانا فضل الرحمٰن),(born on June 19, 1953 in Abdul Khel, Dera Ismail Khan) is a Muslim Pakistani politician. He is the President of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam. He is also Secretary General of MMAP.

Background

Fazl ur-Rahman inherited from his father public support in their native area of Dera Ismail Khan. Of the four general elections that Fazl ur-Rahman contested since 1988 from his national assembly constituency, NA-18, he won two with convincing margins. In 1990 and 1997 he lost allegedly^{[citation needed]} because of engineered results that entrusted heavy mandates to the Sharifs of Lahore on both occasions. It was because of the family's spport in the Dera Ismail Khan constituency that Maulana Mufti Mahmud defeated the then invincible Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the 1970 general elections.

Fazl ur-Rahman's politics, like his father's, has been at odds with the Muslim League. The father was in Jama'at Ulema-i-Hind (Madani group) which shared the views of the Congress on the partition issue. Fazl ur-Rahman remained in the camp of the political alliances and parties that were opposed to Nawaz Sharif's League. Only once did he contest the election in alliance with the PML, in 1990, and then too he lost.

Fazl ur-Rahman built his public image by supporting Zulfaqir Ali Bhutto's daughter Benazir Bhutto and the PPP during her second term as the prime minister.

Current status

Fazal-ur-Rahman is in opposition in the National Assembly and Senate of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. His party has been implicated with the government of Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani.^{[citation needed]} Molana Fazal Rehman was greatly supported by Hazrat Molana Khuwaja Khan Muhammad Sahib of Kundian(a leader of Khatme Nabuwat)... He is also known as ameeri jamiat^{[citation needed]}

Member of National Assembly of Pakistan

Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman has been elected to National Assembly on multiple occasions. He was appointed as Chairman of the parliamentary committee on foreign affairs in the second government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He was Leader of the Opposition between 2004–2007, as he was leading a sizable contingent of opposition parliamentarians (mainly from MMA).

He is originally from Abdulkhel Panyala in the Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

See also

• Profile: Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman
• Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman
• on www.elections.com.pk
• Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
• Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (Assembly of Pakistani 'Ulama)

Notes

Party political offices
Preceded by Mufti Mahmud	Leader of the Assembly of Islamic Clergy 1980–present	Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Benazir Bhutto	Leader of the Opposition 2004–2008	Succeeded by Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi