A graduate of NED University of Engineering and Technology and a Masters in Islamic History, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman — Jamaat-i-Islami’s vocal Karachi chief — joined student politics through the Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba (IJT), the JI’s student wing, in 1988 and eventually went on to head its affairs in the whole of Pakistan when he assumed the role of the IJT’s Nazim-i-Aala. Later