Anas Noorani resigns as JUP President

ISLAMABAD—President Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) Shah Anas Noorani has resigned from the top slot of the party.
In resignation submitted at the meeting of the central Majlis-e-shoora of the JUP in Lahore, he expressed his inability to work further as party chief on personal grounds, GEO television reported. However, according to the party sources, his resignation has not been approved and a member of the Shoora Dr. Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair has been nominated as acting president. Shah Anas Noorani was working as the president of the JUP after the death of his father Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani.

—Online