Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari,was a Pakistani politician who served as the eighth president of Pakistan from 14 November 1993 until resigning on 2 December 1997. He was the first Baloch to be elected as President.
A jirga is an assembly of leaders that makes decisions by consensus according to Pashtunwali,the Pashtun social code. It is conducted in order to settle disputes among the Pashtuns,but also by members of other ethnic groups who are influenced by them in present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Fazal-ur-Rehman is a Pakistani politician who is the president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F). He is also the president of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM),a coalition of political parties which ousted then prime minister Imran Khan through a no-confidence motion in 2022. He has been a member of the National Assembly since February 2024 and previously served in that position between 1988 and 2018. He was also the Leader of the Opposition from 2004 to 2007. He is a supporter of the Taliban government in Afghanistan and has demanded for its international recognition. In the 1980s,he was part of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD),which was formed to end the military regime of General Zia-ul-Haq.
Bannu also called Bana and Bani is a city located on the Kurram River in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan. It is the capital of Bannu Division. Bannu's residents are primarily members of the Banuchi tribe and speak Banuchi (Baniswola),a dialect of Pashto which is similar to the distinct Waziristani dialect. The residents regardless of their tribes are commonly called Banusi,Banuchi or Banisi.
Council of Islamic Ideology (CII;is a constitutional body of Pakistan,responsible for giving legal advice on Islamic issues to the government and the Parliament.
Syed Qaim Daim Ali Shah is a Pakistani politician who served as the elected Chief Minister of Sindh for three terms. His last two terms combined,a total of eight years,makes him the longest serving Chief Minister of Sindh. He is Sindh President of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and was an elected Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) from PS-220 (Khairpur-1).
Justice Mohammad Afzal Cheema was a Pakistani politician and judge. Justice Cheema is the only Pakistani to reach the top positions in all branches of state. He served as the acting President of Pakistan,Judge of the High Court and then Supreme Court of Pakistan,Senior Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan,Federal Law Secretary,and Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology. He is considered the most prominent personality in the Cheema tribe and is commonly referred to as the "Chief of Cheemas".
The Sunni Ittehad Council is a political alliance of Islamic political and Barelvi religious parties in Pakistan which represents followers of the school of Sunni Islam.
NA-39 Bannu is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan. It covers the whole of district Bannu. The constituency was formerly known as NA-26 Bannu from 1977 to 2018. The name changed to NA-35 Bannu after the delimitation in 2018.
Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen is a Pakistani Shi'a Islamic political organization. Its headquarters are in Islamabad. MWM Pakistan works to establish an Islamic democratic welfare state,particularly emphasising Shi'a-Sunni unity.
Akhundzada Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi was a Muslim theologian,jurist,and scholar of ahadith in Pakistan. He was active in the Pakistan movement,member of Council of Islamic Ideology. He was the companion of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and separatist leader Maulana Zafar Ali Khan and was active in the independence movement of Pakistan against the British Raj. He was a Sufi of the Chishti Sufi order and the founding member of the religious Barelvi Sunni strain political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP). He became its president in 1948. He was also a political figure in Pakistan and was the first recipient of Nishan-e-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan. He was also the chairman of Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatme Nabuwwat,an organisation opposed to the Ahmadiyya Movement that waged a campaign against Mirza Ghulam Ahmed's claim of prophethood.
Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani is a Pakistani Deobandi religious cleric and politician who established Rabita Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam the breakway faction of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) over rifts with (JUI-F) leader Fazal-ur-Rehman. He had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan,between 1988 and May 2018. He was the Chairman of the influential Council of Islamic Ideology from 2010 to 2016.
Provincial elections were held in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on 25 July 2018 to elect the members of the 11th Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,alongside nationwide general elections and three other provincial elections in Sindh,Balochistan and Punjab. The remaining two territories of Pakistan,AJK and Gilgit-Baltistan,were ineligible to vote due to their disputed status.
On 13 July 2018,ahead of Pakistan's general election,two bombings took place at election rallies in Bannu and Mastung.
Several violent incidents happened before and on the day of the 2018 Pakistani general election,held on 25 July 2018.
Dr. Qibla Ayaz is the current chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII).
Athar Ali was a Bangladeshi Islamic activist,author,teacher and politician. He participated in the Indian independence movement,and was former president of the Nizam-e-Islam Party. Ali was also a khalifah of Ashraf Ali Thanvi,one of the founders of the Deobandi movement.
Adnan Wazir is a Pakistani politician from Bannu District who has been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since February 2024.
Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri is a Pakistani politician and member of the Senate of Pakistan from Punjab. He is a Shia Muslim and the head of the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM).
