Akif Saeed

Akif Saeed (also known as Hafiz Akif Saeed) is a Pakistani scholar who was Ameer (leader) of Tanzeem-e-Islami party from 2002 to 2020.
Biography.
Akif Saeed was born in 1958 in Sahiwal, Punjab, Pakistan. His father Israr Ahmed was an Islamic scholar of Pakistan and founded the Tanzeem-e-Islami party in 1975, after developing differences with Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Amir (leader) Abul A'la Maududi and was the leader of the party from 1975 to 2002. Akif Saeed then took over the party leadership and ran it from 2002 to August 2020.
In April 2009, Akif Saeed led a protest rally and voiced his concern against the US drone attacks inside the borders of Pakistan and killing of innocent people by the NATO forces.
In August 2020, Akif Saeed resigned from the party leadership position due to health problems for the past couple months with the Coronavirus disease 2019 and a noted scholar of the Quran, Shuja Uddin Sheikh, who had been with the party for the last 22 years, was elected the new leader of the party. The Shoora of the party (Central decision-making committee) accepted Akif Saeed's resignation and then elected the new leader.