Karachi: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Emir Maulana Fazlur Rehman has stated that he intends to vote for Mahmood Achakzai, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) presidential candidate, but his party’s choice requires him to do differently.
He did, however, rule out the prospect of collaborating with the associated parties, claiming that the conditions for a grand alliance are not yet present.
“We’ll be where the opposing benches are. “We will go to parliament and protest,” he said to a crowd at Jamia Anwarul Uloom in Karachi on Sunday.
Achakzai, the chief of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), has been nominated as the presidential candidate against Pakistan Peoples Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, who is a joint candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and other political parties part of the coalition set to form a government at the Centre.In a tumultuous session today, the National Assembly elected PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif as Pakistan’s 24th Prime Minister. This will be followed by the country’s presidential election on March 9, with Zardari emerging as the strongest candidate, supported by numerous parties in parliament.
