JHANG: Hardline cleric Maulana Ahmad Ludhianvi may have been defeated in polls five years ago but he’s confident of winning a seat in Pakistan’s election on Saturday, furthering his bid to oppress Shias.
A terrorist to his enemies, a man of peace to his supporters, Ludhianvi heads the country’s largest anti-Shia group, which has been described as the political wing of terror group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
He is part of a coalition led by cleric Samiul Haq, nicknamed Father of the Taliban, having said he was dumped by election frontrunners the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) in favour of his arch rivals, the local feudal Akram family.
