KARACHI: The presidential candidate of opposition parties’ alliance and JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman will arrive in Karachi today (Wednesday).
Few days before presidential polls, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl chief has scheduled his meetings today with the leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA).
Maulana will meet GDA head Pir Pagara Sibghatullah Shah Rashdi at 5pm today, whereas, another meeting is also fixed with Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and other MQM leaders at their head office in Bahadurabad, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) spokesperson Allama Owais Noorani told.
Earlier today, the nomination papers of Fazlur Rehman has been approved by the Election Commission of Pakistan for the presidential elections.
The JUI-F chief has been fielded by the grand alliance of opposition parties except Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for the presidential election.
Yesterday, a high-level meeting attended by Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) top brass decided not to support PML-N-backed Maulana Fazlur Rehman for upcoming presidential polls.
The meeting chaired by party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari unanimously decided not to support Fazl and go to the polls with PPP’s own presidential candidate Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan.
Though a part of opposition alliance named “Alliance for Free and Fair Elections”, PPP named Aitzaz Ahsan as their candidate for presidential elections despite strong opposition by PML-N.
Fazl had earlier expressed hope that he will persuade the PPP to support him or nominate a joint candidate for the presidential polls who is acceptable for PML-N too as the former ruling party had expressed reservations on Aitzaz’s name.
The presidential election is set to be held on September 4.
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