Senior Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri was again hospitalized in Quetta on Friday night.
Maulana Ghafoor Haideri was rushed to hospital due to heart problem
It may be mentioned here that the JUI Central Secretary General was earlier treated for the same disease in February last when he was brought to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad.
Doctors then had treated Haideri as he suffered a heart attack.
A seasoned politician, Haideri had served as Deputy Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, and has held the post of central Secretary General of JUI-F since 1995.
Born in June 1957 to Muhammad Azam Lehri in the Kalat district of Balochistan, Haideri received his early education in his native village before completing his religious studies in 1979.
He passed examinations conducted by the Wafaq-ul-Madaris Al-Arabia, Pakistan’s largest federation of Islamic seminaries. In 1984, he established Jamia Shah Wali Ullah in Kalat and taught there until 1990.
His political activism dated back to the 1970s, when he participated in the Tehrik-e-Khatm-e-Nabuwat in 1974 and the Tehreek Nizam-e-Mustafa in 1977, during which he was imprisoned twice.
Haideri was elected general secretary of the JUI-F in Quetta district in 1983 and was arrested again on August 14 that year during the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy campaign against the government of President Ziaul Haq. He was sentenced by a military court to 10 lashes and one year of imprisonment in Sibi jail.
He was elected to the Balochistan Provincial Assembly in the 1990 general elections and later served as a provincial minister. In the 1993 general elections, he won a seat in the National Assembly from the Kalat constituency. He entered the Senate in 2015 and was re-elected in 2021. In the 2024 general elections, Haideri returned to the National Assembly.