Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of his own faction of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-Fazl), has be­come the first president of the opposition’s Pakistan Dem­ocratic Movement (PDM) after his unanimous nomination by the heads of all the constituent parties during their first formal meeting through video link on Saturday.

According to PDM’s steering committee convener Ahsan Iqbal, Pakistan Mus­lim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supreme leader and deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif proposed Maulana’s name as the alliance president and it was endorsed by Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and others.

Sources told Dawn that Mr Sharif had initially proposed that Maulana Fazl should be appointed as the president on a permanent basis, but the idea was opp­osed by Mr Bhutto-Zardari and Awami National Party (ANP) leader Amir Haider Hoti, who suggested that the office should be given on a rotational basis to leaders of the constituent parties.

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