March 04, 2007	Sunday	Safar 14, 1428

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LAHORE, March 3: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir and MMA president Qazi Husain Ahmad has said that Gen Musharraf’s policies aimed at making Pakistan a secular and frontline state in the so-called US war on terror have failed as even Washington has rejected them.

Talking to newsmen at Mansoorah on Saturday during a break in a meeting of JI central Shoora, Qazi said Gen Musharraf was implementing decisions at gunpoint through corps commanders and made parliament and judiciary powerless.

Rejecting the impression that efforts to form a grand alliance of opposition parties had died away, the Jamaat leader said he was ready to contact political leaders, including Benazir Bhutto to free the country from the dictatorship.

He said the situation had reached the extent that US Congress was now planning sanctions against the Musharraf regime for helping Al Qaeda and Taliban elements against American interests.

Qazi criticized Gen Musharraf for destroying constitutional and democratic institutions and deteriorating law and order situation in the country.

He warned that the present circumstances required the alternative political leadership to come out with a clear and common strategy to restore the rule of parliament and judiciary, besides providing relief to people.

He said opposition parties should participate in the all-party conference convened by PML-N chief Mian Nawaz Sharif.

He urged them to use the platform for chalking out a solid strategy to rid the country of the dictatorship and restore the supremacy of parliament and judiciary.