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JUP to run in elections
 The Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) has announced that it will run in the January 8 elections.
| JUP is the Brelvi faction. |
The JUP is the third largest party of the six-party religious alliance, the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), the largest component of the MMA, has already announced that it will contest the elections. The JUP election cell decided on Monday that it would run in the polls from the MMAs platform. However, there is a controversy among the MMA components as to who would use the alliances election symbol, book.
The "book" being the Koran, of course.
This little episode represents the death knell of the MMA, if we're lucky, and I've got to admit we owe it all to the combination of Perv's politicking ability and the sizes of the egos involved. Breaking up the Qazi-Fazl-Sami alliance was a major accomplishment. |
Posted by: Fred 2007-12-11 |
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