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Maulana Fazlur Rehman

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Fazlur Rehman (R), chief of a pro-Taliban religious party, Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI), addresses a religious gathering on the final day of three-day International Islamic Conference in the northwestern city of Peshawar, 11 April 2001. A mass rally of Islamists wound up in emotional scenes after three days of bitter anti-Western speeches and pledges of support for the Taliban militia in Afghanistan. (FILM) AFP PHOTO

Maulana Fazlur Rehman Chief of Pakistan's fundamentalist Islamic Party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam addresses an anti-US rally in Rawalpindi 05 October 2001. Rehman has criticised the decision by President Pervez Musharraf to support the United States in its effort to bring bin Laden, accuseed of organising the September 11 strikes on the US, to Justice. (FILM) AFP PHOTO

Maulana Fazlur Rehman (R), chief of Islamic fundamentalist party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and main leader of a six religious party alliance Muttahida Mujlis-e-Amal (MMA), shake hands with one of the leaders of a pro-goverment Party Pakistan Muslim league (Quaid group), Chaudhary Shujahat Hussian prior to their talks in Islamabad, 15 October 2002. Pakistan's secular parties plunged into intense meetings in a bid to woo independents and Islamic parties to capture a majority in the hung parliament. AFP PHOTO/ Saeed KHAN

This hand out picture released by the Pakistan People's Party shows Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari (L) receiving coalition partner Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman (C), head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam upon arrival for a meeting in Islamabad on August 6, 2008. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on 6 August abruptly cancelled a visit to the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony as Pakistan's ruling coalition held talks on his possible impeachment. The announcement came as the fragile coalition government, wh

This hand out picture released by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz shows Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari (L) and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ( R) sharing a light moment with coalition leader Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman (C), head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam during a meeting in Islamabad on August 6, 2008. President Pervez Musharraf on August 6 abruptly cancelled a visit to the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony as Pakistan's ruling coalition held talks on his possible impeachment. The announcemen

Pakistani cleric Maulana Fazalur Rehman, right, talks to reporters at the spot of a suicide bombing at Swabi near Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, March, 30, 2011. The suicide bomber riding a motorcycle attacked a police checkpoint striking amid a crowd gathered along the road to greet prominent hardline Islamist politician, Rehman, killing many people, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Fazlur Rehman (R), chief of a pro-Taliban religious party, Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI), addresses a religious gathering on the final day of three-day International Islamic Conference in the northwestern city of Peshawar, 11 April 2001. A mass rally of Islamists wound up in emotional scenes after three days of bitter anti-Western speeches and pledges of support for the Taliban militia in Afghanistan. (FILM) AFP PHOTO

Maulana Fazlur Rehman Chief of Pakistan's fundamentalist Islamic Party, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam addresses an anti-US rally in Rawalpindi 05 October 2001. Rehman has criticised the decision by President Pervez Musharraf to support the United States in its effort to bring bin Laden, accuseed of organising the September 11 strikes on the US, to Justice. (FILM) AFP PHOTO

Maulana Fazlur Rehman (R), chief of Islamic fundamentalist party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and main leader of a six religious party alliance Muttahida Mujlis-e-Amal (MMA), shake hands with one of the leaders of a pro-goverment Party Pakistan Muslim league (Quaid group), Chaudhary Shujahat Hussian prior to their talks in Islamabad, 15 October 2002. Pakistan's secular parties plunged into intense meetings in a bid to woo independents and Islamic parties to capture a majority in the hung parliament. AFP PHOTO/ Saeed KHAN

This hand out picture released by the Pakistan People's Party shows Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari (L) receiving coalition partner Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman (C), head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam upon arrival for a meeting in Islamabad on August 6, 2008. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on 6 August abruptly cancelled a visit to the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony as Pakistan's ruling coalition held talks on his possible impeachment. The announcement came as the fragile coalition government, wh

This hand out picture released by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz shows Pakistan People's Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari (L) and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif ( R) sharing a light moment with coalition leader Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman (C), head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam during a meeting in Islamabad on August 6, 2008. President Pervez Musharraf on August 6 abruptly cancelled a visit to the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony as Pakistan's ruling coalition held talks on his possible impeachment. The announcemen

Pakistani cleric Maulana Fazalur Rehman, right, talks to reporters at the spot of a suicide bombing at Swabi near Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, March, 30, 2011. The suicide bomber riding a motorcycle attacked a police checkpoint striking amid a crowd gathered along the road to greet prominent hardline Islamist politician, Rehman, killing many people, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Born in Dera Ismail Khan in 1953, Maulana Fazlur Rehman heads his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, a party which was initially headed by his father Maulana Mufti Mahmoud, a religious scholar and political leader who was the chief minister of NWFP (now Khyber Pakthunkhwa) in the 1970s. Fazl draws his support from followers of the Deobandi school of thought which is part and parcel of JUI-Fazl’s ideology.

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