Swabi: The ideological leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and former member of the assembly Maulana Khalil Ahmad Mukhalis passed away on Sunday due to cardiac arrest.
His funeral prayers were offered at his madrassa Rashidiya Kotha and later he was buried in the ancestral graveyard. He has been running his Madrasa Rashidiya for a long time.
Maulana had won the National Assembly seat on a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) ticket from the then NA-9 Swabi II during the Muttahida Majlis Aam (MMA) government.
Later, differences arose between Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Maulana Khalil Ahmad Mukhlis, chief of Jamiat Ulema Islam (F), due to some reasons and the latter founded his own faction of Jamiat Ulema Islam (F).