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General
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On 15 March 2008, Makhdoom Amin Fahim said that he did not understand why the PPP had still not named him as its candidate. According to Faheem, if
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as an undecided major and declared his major in 1958 at the department of social sciences. Faheem declared major in political science and gained
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Makhdoom Amin Fahim was also the leader of the largest spiritual group of people called the "Sarwari Jamaat" in
Pakistan, consisting of millions of people across the world.
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where he was made the senior vice-chairman of the party and PPP was founded at his house in Hala, Sindh. Makhdoom
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