Overview
- JUI-F publicly backed PTI’s nomination of PkMAP chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai for Leader of the Opposition, according to a party statement posted on X.
- The support followed a meeting at Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Islamabad residence with a PTI delegation led by Asad Qaiser and including Junaid Akbar and Shahram Khan Tarakai.
- PTI urged JUI-F to help unify opposition benches in parliament, and both sides agreed to continue consultations on future coordination.
- PTI sought JUI-F cooperation on a vacant Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senate seat and proposed a national jirga on K-P law and order, a step Fazlur Rehman welcomed.
- PTI is reshaping its parliamentary leadership after May 9 case convictions led to August removals, and Fazlur Rehman has stated he does not seek the opposition leader’s post.