September 23, 2007	Sunday	Ramazan 10, 1428

LAHORE, Sept 22: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal deputy secretary-general Liaquat Baloch expressed hope here on Saturday that the MMA’s supreme council, scheduled to meet in Islamabad on Monday, would be able to remove ‘misunderstandings’ within the alliance.

In a press statement, Mr Baloch said the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam, the largest party in the six-party religious alliance, should not make the All Parties Democratic Movement’s resolve of en bloc resignations by its members from assemblies controversial because the JUI leadership had been part of the decisions that were made by the all-parties conference and at MMA meetings in London and in Pakistan.

Similarly, he said, the MMA’s supreme council, which met in Quetta in the fist week of August, also endorsed all the decisions and pronounced that the religious alliance would implement the APDM decisions.

“We expect the JUI to respect its own decision with regard to the role of the APDM. We are confident that the next meeting of the council will resolve every controversial issue”, he added.

He said the opposition was united against Gen Musharraf who had lost all the moral and political justifications to remain in power.

The opposition, he said, had a rare chance of wrapping up the regime and could hardly afford differences at this ‘decisive’ stage.