KARACHI, Feb 1: A meeting of the Muttahida Majalis-i-Amal, presided over by its president Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, was held here on Saturday.
Briefing newsmen after the meeting, Maulana Noorani said the participants had expressed deep concern over the discriminatory attitude of the US government towards Pakistanis. He said Pakistan should also force US citizens visiting Pakistan to undergo the fingerprint process.
“They should also be bound to present certificates declaring them AIDS-free, and those found on screening to be carrying the deadly disease should immediately be asked to return,” he said.
He urged Muslim countries to observe solidarity in their ranks against the western forces. “MMA stands committed to standing by Iraq if it is subjected to aggression.”
Maulana Noorani also accused the government of rigging the recently held by-elections and said the MMA would foil the government’s designs.
“We have decided to participate wholeheartedly in the process of senate elections on general and technocrats’ seats in cooperation with the coalition parties,” he said.
He said it had also been decided by the meeting that Liaquat Baloch and Hafiz Hussain Ahmad would communicate with the PPP and the PML-N with the objective to convene a national assembly session to discus the issues of rampant price hike and unemployment.
Hafiz Hussain Ahmad, deputy parliamentary leader of the MMA, speaking on the occasion, said that despite great efforts by President Pervaiz Musharraf the US never reposed trust in Pakistan.
He said President Musharraf should ask the US whether it was the reward for the unprecedented logistic support offered by the Musharraf government to the US in its war against terrorism that a large number of Pakistanis were searched physically after being stripped.
Asadullah Bhutto, Asad Thanvi, Pir Ijaz Hashmi, Maulana Omar Sadiq, Maulana Abdul Karim Abid were among those who attended the meeting.
QAZI: Central parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and Amir Jamaat-i-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, has termed revengeful the demolition of the houses of Mohammad Farooq, brother of the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town Nazim, by the KBCA.
He was talking to newsmen during his visit to the affected place where the three houses of Mohammad Farooq were levelled.—PPI
