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| May 18, 2005 | Wednesday | Rabi-us-Sani 9, 1426 |
MMA’s struggle for democracy to continue: Fazl
QUETTA, May 17: Leader of opposition in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that MMA, being a democratic movement, cannot support a dictator and it will continue struggle for restoration of ‘true’ democracy and supremacy of parliament.
He was speaking at a press conference in the federal lodges here on Tuesday after arriving from Islamabad.
Referring to the remarks of President Musharraf at a recent Pakistan Muslim League meeting, the Maulana said that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal did not have a monopoly on Islam but it was defending Islam which was being attacked from different corners.
He added that the military ruler had at last understood that despotic rule and democracy could not coexist.
He said that the US decision to investigate desecration of Holy Quran in Guantanamo Bay prison could not heel the wounds of the Muslim Ummah, adding that Washington’s investigations against American atrocities in foreign countries had always remained a futile exercise.
He said that he had written letters to the monarch of Saudi Arabia and his Auqaf minister and religio-political parties in African states, besides contacting leaders of the Jamait Ulema-i- Islam, India and Bangladesh, calling upon them to observe a protest day on May 27 on the call of the MMA.
He added that the Muslim Ummah should express concern over the sacrilege of Holy Quran on the protest day to tell the international community that the desecration had hurt the sentiments of the Muslim population around the world.
He praised the rulers of Saudi Arabia and Libya for expressing concern over the sacrilege of Holy Quran.
The MMA leader asked America and Western countries to review their policies on Muslim states and respect their sovereignty and fundamental rights of their populace.
Condemning US administration’s ‘anti-Muslim’ policies, he said that after the 9/11 incident, the United States without any evidence had attacked Afghanistan, killed thousands of innocent people and made a large number of woman widows and children orphans.
Similarly, on false information by intelligence agencies that Iraq possessed chemical weapons, the US-led allied forces had invaded Iraq and killed thousands of Iraqi people without recovering any weapon of mass destruction, he added.
Answering a question, he denied the press reports that NWFP Chief Minster Akram Durani had asked the MMA to allow him either to attend National Security Council meeting or to tender resignation from the official post.
Later, the opposition leader left for Kharan to address a public meeting of the MMA candidate in the by-election on the Kharan-Panjgur National Assembly seat scheduled for May 28.
The seat has fallen vacant after death of MMA MNA Maulana Rehmatullah.
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