Muhammad Khan Sherani

Muhammad Khan Sherani
Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology
In office
16 November 2010 – 17 November 2016
Preceded byDr. Muhammad Khalid Masud
Succeeded byDr. Qibla Ayaz
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
1 June 2013 – 31 May 2018
ConstituencyNA-264 (Zhob-cum-Sherani-cum-Killa Saifullah)
In office
18 November 2002 – 18 November 2007
ConstituencyNA-264 (Zhob-cum-Killa Saifullah)
In office
1 December 1988 – 12 October 1999
ConstituencyNA-200 (Zhob)
Personal details
Born1948 (age 75–76)
Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan
Political partyRabita Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam[1][2] (2020-2022)
Other political
affiliations
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (1988-2020)

Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani (Pashto/Urdu: مولانا محمد خان شیرانی) 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.[3] 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.

  1. ^ "Senate of Pakistan".
  2. ^ "Rifts in Fazl-led JUI deepen". Dawn (newspaper). 22 December 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Rifts in Fazl-led JUI deepen". Dawn (newspaper). 22 December 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2021.