Lahore : The election of the central Shoora of the Jamaat e Islami have been completed and the names of those elected have been announced.
The election result was announced by the JI deputy chief and head of the JI central Election body, Asadullah Bhutto, at a press conference on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, Asadullah Bhutto said that the JI was a democratic and progressive party and was strictly following its constitution. He said the JI wanted the democratic system to get roots and flourish in the country. However, he said, that other political parties in the country only paid lip service to democracy but they did not have real democracy in their own ranks. He said that the supremacy of the constitute ion and the law could be established only by strictly following the democratic norms.
The JI central Shoora comprises eighty members including ten women members. They have been elected by more than forty thousand JI Arakan( members) through secret ballot.
The new JI central Shoora has 22 male members and one female member from Khyber P. Thirteen male members are from northern Punjab besides one woman member. Fifteen male members are from central Punjab besides two women members. Six male Shoora members and one women member have been elected from South Punjab.
From Sindh, eleven male Shoora members have been declared elected besides four female members. From Balochistan, three male members have been elected besides one female member.
Secretary, JI election body Bilal Qudrat Butt, JI Information Secretary Qaisar Sharif and Yousuf Haider, were also present at the press conference.
The male Shoora members elected from Khyber P, are; Attiqur Rahman, Misbahullah, Sabir Husain Awan, Asif Luqman Qazi, Dr Muhammad Attaur Rahman, Jamalud Din, Ezazul ul Mulk Afkari, Maulana Asadullah, Arshad Zaman, Inayatullah khan, Hanifullah khan, Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali , Muhammad Haleem , Muhammad Amin, Fazal Subhan, Sajid Qureshi, Mehboob Elahi , Tariq Shirazi, Dr Muhammad Qasim , Maulana Tasleem Iqbal, Haroonur Rashid, Muhammad Hasan. The female member is Mohtarama Humaira Tayyub.
The male Shoora members elected from northern Punjab are Nasrullah Randhawa, Zubair Safdar, Muhammad Arif Shirazi, Raja Jawwad, Shamsur Rahman Swati, Javed Iqbal Cheema, Prof. Irfan Ahmed, Zia Ullah Shah, Dr Khalid Saqib, Riaz Farooq Sahi, Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Maulana Abdus Sattar and Fidaur Rahman. Dr Rukhsana Jabeen is the female Shoora members from the area.
The male Shoora members elected from central Punjab are Sardar Zafar Husain Khan, Azeem Randhawa, Mehr Bahdur Khan Jhakkar, Mazhar Iqbal Randhawa, Hafiz Ghulam Mustafa, Bilal Qudrat Butt, Dr Shakil Thakar, Zikrullah Mujahid, Hafiz Salman Butt, Muhammad Javed Kasuri, Eng. Akhlaq Ahmed, Sarfraz Khan, Dr Liaqat Ali kausar, and Dr Tahir Sraj. The two female members are Mohtarama Bushra Sadiqa and Humaira Tariq.
The male Shoora members from southern Punjab are Safdar Iqbal Hashmi, Ch. Asghar Ali Gujjar, Sh. Muhammad Usman, Syed Zeeshan Haider , Dr Anwarul Haq and Iftikahr Nadeem. The female member is Muhtarama Razia Fatima.
The male members elected from Sindh province are; Hafiz Naeemur Rahman, Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqi, Syed Shahid Hashmi, Syed Abdul Rashid, Dr Usama Razi, Farooq Nematullah, Dr Wase Shakir, Abdul Waheed Qureshi , Muhammad Afzal, Maulana Hizbullah Jhakkar and Abdul Hafeez Bajarani, The four female member are Mohtarama Attaya Nisar, Afshan Naveed , Asama Safir, and Ra’na Afzal.
The three male members from Balochistan are Abdul Kabir Shakir, Zahid Akhtar and Maulana Hidayatur Rahman. Mohtarama Yasmeen Achakzai is the female Shoora member from the province.