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What you see in the picture is definitely a new decent look of Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman because whenever some one talk about him the most common sketch which comes in the mind is a man wearing an orange turban (Paghri).

Whether it is a press conference or the session of National Assembly, he always wears that orange turban on his head which becomes the symbol of his personality.

But the picture of this new look was taken after Amir Jamiat Ulmaa-e-Islam (F) Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman had meeting with Federal Minister for Interior Senator A Rehman on Wednesday in Islamabad.

Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman also famous as pazlo is son of well known religious and political leader Maulana Mufti Mahmood

He is Ameer (President) of a faction of a political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Assembly of 'Ulama-e-Islam). His faction is known as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal ur Rahman group or JUI-F. He is also the General Secretary of the Religious Alliance; Muttahidah Majlis-e-'Amal (Council of United Action) or MMA. He is originally from the Abdulkhel Banyala area in Dera Ismail Khan District of North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He was selected as Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan by the Speaker of the Assembly on May 25, 2004[1]. He remained in that post till his resgination from the assembly in 2007.

Controversies

Scandals During 1993-1996

Benazir Bhutto was the first female muslim woman head of a democratically elected government. During the second government of Benazir Bhutto (1993-1996) Fazl, the head of his own fundamentalist Islamic party, along with other parties, began to argue that it is was not allowed for a woman to head the government, but after he was appointed as to chair a committee in the National Assembly, he ceased raising the issue of whether a woman could serve as head of the government. This lead to the wildly held view that his change in attitude was a direct result of the appointment. Addition he was awarded a huge quota for Diesel fuel, which earned him the nickname of 'Maulana Diesel'

Presidential Election 2007

In Pakistan, the presidential electoral college consists of the 4 provincial assemblies, the national assembly and the senate. In 2007, a situation occurred where the term of the president as well as the assemblies were expiring at the same time. The president at the time was General Pervaiz Musharaf, who had come to power as a result of a military coup. In 2007, he was up for re-election in October. The opposition parties took the position that an assembly whose own term is ending cannot elect a new president specially when the same assembly had earlier elected a president at its inception. They maintained that one assembly cannot cast votes to elect a president twice. In order to break the electoral college, the opposition parties pressed for dissolution of the only opposition held provisional assembly of NWFP, which was headed by the MMA. The constitution allowed for the dissolution of a provincial assembly by the Chief Minister of the provincial government.

In the face of intense pressure of other parties of the MMA, as well as, some other opposition parties, Mr. Fazl was pressured to dissolve the assembly. He announced on September 27, 2007 that on October 2, 2007 the Chief Minister of his party would send the dissolution advice. Due to gap between the announcement and its implementation, an opportunity was provided to the supporters of General Musharaf to file a motion of no confidence against the Chief Minister. As the result of the motion of no confidence, the CM was prevented from filing the advice. It was widely believed that Mr. Fazl, who is a seasoned politician pre-announced the date when the Chief Minister would advise for dissolution so that a no confidence movement could be filed and prevent the situation of an incomplete electoral college.

Land Scandal

According to a investigative report, eleven influential figures were allowed to purchase valuable fertile agriculture land (during the former Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government) at nominal rates in the southern districts of the NWFP, in a “land scandal”. Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman has been involved in property scandal during the President General Musharaf era. Maulana and his associates were allotted thousands of kanals of agriculture land in 2006 (The News, Friday, November 7, 2008).

Lawyer Movement

A Lawyers movement for restoration of the judiciary had been going for almost 2 years since March 2007 across the country. In March 2009, the movement called for a long march. Mr Fazl called it a provincial movement and dubbed it a "Punjab movement" to give it a ethnic color[5]. As the result of Mr Fazl's past activities, and his activities during the long movement, many bar councils have barred Mr. Fazl for life[6].Mulana Fazl is also a big critisier of CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chauhdary.