LAHORE, Aug 27: The PPP and the PML-N were pro-US in their policies and willing to join hands with secular forces, MMA President Qazi Husain Ahmad said on Friday , the day when the religious alliance expressed solidarity with the ARD by boycotting the election of the new prime minister.

"They (the PPP and the PML-N) have differences with the army only because of power. Ms Benazir Bhutto has already offered to recognize Gen Musharraf as president if she was made the prime minister," the MMA chief said in a press statement.

He said the country stood at a crossroads where it was to make a choice between secularism, autocracy, military dictatorship or democracy. He said the Jamaat-i-Islami's three-day congregation, due to open in Lahore on Oct 1, would play an important role in this regard.

The Qazi said there were forces, which believed in Kamalism and wanted to run the country on the same path. In case they were not resisted, the country would lose its ideological identity, he said.

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