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LAHORE, Aug 11: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) is ready to make electoral adjustments with the PML-N provided the Sharifs give personal guarantees about the agreement.
The last summit meeting of the MMA, held in the city on Aug 7, decided to send Prof Sajid Mir, one of the six supreme leaders of the Majlis, to Saudi Arab to hold talks with Mr Nawaz Sharif in this regard, said an MMA leader who requested not to be named.
He said the six-party alliance was determined not to go with the PML-QA and the PPP for supporting the former would mean supporting Gen Pervez Musharraf, while the chairperson of the latter had never kept secret her contempt against religious elements.
He said Mr Mir would leave Pakistan for Jeddah on Aug 16. After successful talks, Mr Sharif would phone the other MMA leaders in Pakistan to discuss and finalize the electoral arrangement, he said.
A formal agreement in this regard would be signed in the presence of Shahbaz Sharif in Pakistan, he said, adding, if he could not make it to the country in case any restrictions by the military government then PML-N chairman Raja Zafarul Haq and secretary-general Saranjaam Khan would represent the party.
The MMA leaders wanted to wait for the arrival of Shahbaz Sharif to discuss the electoral cooperation directly with him. But the reports that the government might not allow him to enter Pakistan or at least delay his arrival made them to send Sajid Mir, who had good relations with the Sharifs, to Saudia for the purpose.
It was learnt that the Sharifs had already directed the local PML-N leadership to extend maximum cooperation to the MMA in the October elections.
The League had also hinted that it was ready to accommodate MMA’s candidates even in Lahore constituencies.
CONDEMNED: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s central leader Liaquat Baloch has condemned terror attacks on properties of Christians in Murree and Taxila.
Speaking at a meeting of religious scholars and elite of Ghazali Park, Wahdat Colony, area, he said people would vote against atheism, vulgarity and the leaders who were responsible for economic disaster of the country.
The scholars on the occasion announced their support for the manifesto of the MMA.
Meanwhile, Jamaat-i-Islami deputy secretary-general Farid Piracha has welcomed the election commission’s decision to implement articles 62-63 on candidates in October polls.
He, however, urged the EC officials to observe complete impartiality while implementing two articles as these could be used by the government for victimizing the opponents.
