The political and religious leader, Hafiz Abdul Karim, has been chosen as the new Emir of the Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadith (JAH).
Karim was chosen without opposition after the position was empty after the disappearance of former Professor Emir Sajid Mir on May 3, Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif congratulated Hafiz Abdul Karim for his election and expressed his good wishes for the newly elected chief of the Popolithic Party.
The PML-N has nominated Hafiz Abdul Karim, who was previously Jah’s general secretary, as a candidate for the seat of the Senate that was vacant after the disappearance of Professor Mir.
According to a PML-N press release, the president of the party, Nawaz Sharif, offered the seat in the Senate to Professor Mir’s son, Ahmad Mir, but rejected the offer. The PML-N then nominated Karim for the vacancy in the Senate.
Karim previously served as a senator from March 2018 to March 2024 in a Punjab technocrat seat. He was also a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to 2018. In addition, he served as Minister of Communication at the Cabinet of the then Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in 2017.
The remarkable religious and political leader, Professor Mir, died at the age of 86 earlier this month after a heart attack. He was buried in his native Sialkot.
Mir was chosen as PML-N senator in 2021, which was his fifth time playing the Senate elections in the party ticket. He had also served as senator from March 2009 to March 2015.
The Pakistan Electoral Commission (ECP) has announced the elections for the general Punjab vacancy in the Senate on May 29.
