LAHORE, Nov 19: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) hopes a number of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q members will support it in the “remove Musharraf” movement.

MMA parliamentary leader Qazi Hussain Ahmad said if President Gen Pervez Musharraf vetoed the agreement reached at between the religious alliance and the ruling party in the Lahore talks, they would launch the drive and many of the PML-Q members would extend their support to it.

“We shall be justified to launch the movement from Dec 18 if the government fails to table the agreed constitutional amendment bill in the National Assembly by Dec 17,” he told a select gathering at an Iftar dinner here on Wednesday.

Asked if the MMA would extend its deadline like in the past, he replied in the negative. “No, the Dec 17 ultimatum is the final.”

He would not come out with details about the mode of their protest. “The six-party alliance has appointed me as head of the committee which would decide and organize the protest movement. I have yet to consult other members of the body on the issue,” the Qazi, who is also chief of the Jamaat-i-Islami, said.

However, sources in the MMA said that besides organizing an all-party conference soon after Eidul Fitr, the alliance, in collaboration with the Pakistan Bar Council, would also hold various conferences against the Legal Framework Order.

Small scale public meetings will also be organized as a mass contact drive as organization of the MMA at the union council level has been started.