Islamabad: JUI leader Senator Maulana Ghafoor Haidari has been appointed Opposition Leader in Senate by Chairman Senate Farooq H Naik.
Though 25 opposition Senators belonging to eight opposition parties have nominated Senator Ishaq Dar for the slot, the government notified JUI-F leader as opposition leader in upper house of the parliament.
The JUI-F, which is the largest single opposition group in the 100-seat house with 10 senators, had applied for the slot proposing its parliamentary leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri for opposition leader with the support of a total of 13 members, including three independents from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Ishaq Dar, whose party has only seven members in the house, has sent to the chairman a list of 25 senators in his support, which includes three of the Jamaat-i-Islami and other smaller groups as well as nine dissidents of the government-allied PML-Q.  Despite enjoying majority of the opposition parliamentarians in the upper house, PML-N failed to get the slot of Opposition Leader. Political observers view the development as a result of some behind the scene bargaining between JUI-F and the government.
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