April 13, 2007	Friday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 24, 1428

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ATTOCK, April 12: The deputy general secretary of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) said the government has failed to create differences among lawyers and opposition parties and demanded President Gen Musharraf’s resignation.

Liaquat Baloch, MNA who is also Jamaat Islami’s (JI’s) vice president, said this while talking to local newsmen at the JI Markaz, here on Wednesday evening.

Other MMA leaders present on the occasion included the JI district Amir, Sardar Iqbal Khan.

Mr Baloch said the MMA and other opposition parties would hold a peaceful demonstration in a large numbers on Friday and said the ongoing struggle, for the reinstatement of CJP, was not for an individual but for the restoration of the supremacy of the judiciary.

He said, the lawyers’ movement would succeed as the opposition was supporting it and said the President’s act of suspending the CJP was tantamount to a direct confrontation with the Constitution.

He opined that the country could be only be pulled out from the judicial crises if President Musharraf quits office immediately and holds fair and transparent elections under an interim government.

He said the issue of Jamia Hafsa and trouble in the tribal areas was a result of the policy of so-called enlightened moderation and urged the government to resolve the issue through dialogue instead of resorting to power.