29 October 2004	Friday	14 Ramazan 1425

LAHORE, Oct 28: Any movement against Gen Musharraf will be calculated so that desired results could be achieved, says MMA MNA Hafiz Salman Butt.

Mr Butt, who has been elected Lahore chapter's chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, the second largest constituent of the MMA, told Dawn on Thursday that the alliance would adopt a cautious strategy during the movement.

"It will take care that another martial law is not imposed in the post-movement era, while making all possible attempts to avert direct clash with the army."

He, however, said the movement would continue if any other army general attempted to impose his rule after Gen Musharraf.

Mr Butt, who had earned name by defeating ruling PML's former president Mian Muhammad Azhar in October 2002 general election, was confident that the MMA had the required strength to conduct a successful movement.

He said religious parties, especially the Jamaat, had maintained its influence in trade and student unions which would give it an advantage in the drive.

He claimed that the Jamaat could win polls in Lahore even without PML-N's help. Rather if Mian Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto did not return home, both the PML-N and the PPP would need their (Jamaat's) help in future elections, he boasted.

"It is all due to continuous struggle of Jamaat amir Qazi Husain Ahmad that people are now paying heed to our voice."

About his strategy to further activating the Jamaat in Lahore after he would take oath of his office on Oct 30, he said though it was premature to comment on it, he would focus on party's public welfare projects.

He had plans of introducing a pilot project for providing cheap, affordable transport to white-collar parents of the girls that were seen on city roads waiting for hours for a conveyance to reach their respective homes after attending their educational institutions.

To a question, he said he did not want to indulge in any discord within the party. "I, under instructions from my late father, have been and shall offer my second cheek if any of my colleague will slap on my face even wrongly."