A seasoned politician, 40-year-old Abdur Razzak is a journalism graduate from the University of Karachi. He was elected as the UC-4 nazim in Metroville, SITE Town, both in 2001 and 2005. He has also served as the Jamaat-e-IslamiI’s deputy parliamentary leader in the city council and was expected to be stiff competition to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Awami National Party candidates in the 2013 elections.
Razzak, who is also the JI’s West district vice president, has finally made his way to the provincial assembly after the party’s eight-year absence in the arena due to successive boycotts.
“If fair and free elections were held in Karachi, the JI would have emerged as the real voice of the residents”, he told The Express Tribune.
Meanwhile, JI Karachi chief Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that the JI had boycotted the polls in Karachi due to massive rigging. “Despite this, voters have proved that they trust Jamaat-e-Islami.”
Published in The Express Tribune, August 8th, 2014.
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JI started positively building Karachi when they got Local Govt and brought its budget from 6 billions to 43 billions and finished mega development projects for Karachi during 2001 to 2005. Same can JI do if given chance to rule all over Pakistan. Those who criticise JI is only because they dont like the word ISLAMI associated with its name and Actions.
@bash gull: Precisely! This is what happens when you allow snakes in your gardens, they would bite you. We must insist that these Afghans must be asked and in absence of compliance must be deported back to where they came from. Pakistan comes first for us the people of Pakistan and all the Afghans must leave our land irrespective of them being a Jamati or PTIan.