Sirajul Haq re-elected Jamaat-e-Islami chief
Senator Sirajul Haq has been re-elected as emir (chief) of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) — the country’s mainstream religious party — for another five-year term, the party’s election commission announced on Thursday.

Announcing the results, Asadullah Bhutto, JI’s election commissioner, at the party’s headquarters in northeastern Lahore city, said Haq won the election with a “huge majority”.

According to the JI traditions, no one is actually a candidate for the top slot, however, the Majlis-e-Shoora (central executive council) gave three names to over 39,000 party members — male and female — for “guidance purposes”.

This time, apart from Haq, the other two figures were the party’s incumbent secretary-general, Liaquat Baloch, and deputy chief Professor Ibrahim Khan.

Currently, Jamaat has over 39,124 members apart from hundreds of thousands of workers and supporters.

According to Jamaat’s constitution, only members are eligible to take part in the election for the party chief.