October 7, 2003	Tuesday	Sha’aban 10, 1424

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PESHAWAR, Oct 6: The Frontier province JUI-S leaders have asked their chief Maulana Sami-ul-Haq to boycott the MMA at the central level.

Formally announcing the party’s provincial Shura’s (council) decisions at a hurriedly-called press conference here on Monday, party’s provincial president Maulana Qazi Abdul Latif and general secretary Maulana Syed Mohammed Yousuf Shah said the central Shura had been recommended to endorse the decision of the provincial council.

“We have recommended the central Shura [council] to boycott the MMA after its government in the NWFP failed to fulfil the agenda the alliance had given before the Oct elections and for acting as a two-party alliance during last 10 months,” said Maulana Qazi Abdul Latif, provincial JUI-S chief, here on Monday.

The executive committee of the NWFP JUI-S chapter had already decided to withdraw its support from the MMA-led provincial government in its meeting on Sept 23, 2003, after failing to get its grievances across to the major component parties of the alliance— the JUI-F and Jamaat-i-Islami.

The JUI-S, which has two members each in the NWFP assembly and National Assembly, had developed differences with the provincial government on the issue of non-provision of sufficient development funds to its representatives and non-induction of its people in the provincial cabinet.

It also accuses the JUI-F and JI of interfering in the affairs of constituencies from where the JUI-S supported candidates had won the elections.

The executive committee recommendation was endorsed by the party’s provincial council in its meeting held on Sunday at Abbottabad.

Though the central Shura has yet to discuss and take a decision on the recommendation, JUI-S chief Maulana Sami-ul-Haq during a press talk on Monday at Akkora Khattak supported the stand adopted by his party’s NWFP chapter.