KARACHI, April 10: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s Deputy Secretary General Liaquat Baloch has said that the alliance is considering all options, including coming out of the coalition government in Balochistan, dissolving the NWFP assembly and resigning from assemblies and the Senate for restoration of genuine democracy and supremacy of the Constitution.

Talking to newsmen in the Quba auditorium of Jamaat-i-Islami’s provincial headquarter here on Monday, he said that a decision in this regard would be taken in consultation with other opposition parties.

He said that the siege of Sardar Akhtar Mengal’s residence in Karachi and registration of false cases had exposed “hypocrisy and contradictory politics” of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.

“Home Ministry in Sindh is in the Muttahida’s control and all actions against the Baloch leadership, including siege of Akhtar Mengal’s residence, his house arrest, arrest of his employees and registration of false cases, are being supervised by the Muttahida-led provincial home ministry,” he said.

He termed the military operation in tribal areas and in Balochistan “highly disastrous for national security”. He said that General Pervez Musharraf was using the army for his personal gains due to which danger of foreign intervention in country’s affairs was increasing.

He said a decision to choose the leader of the opposition in the Senate would be taken by the MMA Supreme Council on April 12 in consultation with other opposition parties.

Liaquat Baloch said that the MMA and the ARD had agreed to launch a movement to oust General Pervez Musharraf, make Senate Chairman act as president of the country, set up an interim government in consultation with opposition, restore the 1973 Constitution in its pre-October 12, 1999, form and set up an independent Election Commission.—PPI