Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman( مولانا فضل الرحمٰن دامت برکاتہم), (born on June 19, 1953 in Abdul Khel, Dera Ismail Khan) is a right-wing politician[1] and cleric, currently serving as the General Secretary and the President of the Assembly of Islamic Clerics (F), and an extremely important ally of Prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani‘s led cabinet government. Rose to national politics in 1988, Rahman has been a traditionally strong ally of Benazir Bhutto since 1988 and considered to be influenced and assisted Benazir Bhutto to to help the regime of Taliban after which she helped established the Taliban‘s Afghanistan in 1996.

After Benazir Bhutto departed from Pakistan 1998, Rahman acted as interim Leader of the Opposition until 1999. After the 2002 elections, Rahman took the office of Leader of the Opposition where he worked with Benazir Bhutto to tackle down the government of General Pervez Musharraf and Prime minister Shaukat Aziz. Since the 2008 parliamentary elections, Rahman has been an integral personality in Yousaf Raza Gillani‘s led cabinet government, and has extremely deep influence on Asif Ali Zardari‘s and Gillani‘s domestic policies on War on Terror.