JUI-F removes four leaders over controversial statements.

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) has sacked four party leaders, including senior leader Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, for 'deviating' from party policy and calling JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman 'selected', it emerged on Friday.

The other party leaders removed from the party were Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Gul Naseeb and Maulana Shujaul Mulk. According to a party's spokesperson, the four leaders were expelled from the party over violating party discipline and he added that a notification in this regard would soon be issued by the head of the disciplinary committee, Abdul Qayyum.

Sherani had said that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), which is headed by Fazl, was an unnatural alliance and would soon break apart as it had no ideology to begin with.

Furthermore, Sherani had said that as Fazl was also 'selected' himself, he has no right to criticise Prime Minister Imran Khan.

'I had predicted it a long time ago that Imran Khan's...

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