Siraj ul Haq elected as Jamaat-e-Islami chief
Syed Munawar Hassan and Liaqat Baloch were also running in the election for the new JI chief.
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Sirajul Haq has been elected as new chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan.
Haq who is serving as senior minister in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa coalition government has been elected as the Jamaat Amir for the next five years.
The JI elected its new Ameer or chief from among the three nominees including Syed Munawwar Hasan, Sirajul Haque and Liaquat Baloch.
The names have been proposed by the Central Majlis-e-Shura.
About 32,400 card-holder JI members elected their new Ameer through secret ballot process spanning over two months.
