MMA rules out underhand deal

Published September 8, 2003

QUETTA, Sept 7: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal Secretary-General Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Sunday that the details of the agreement reached between the government and the alliance would be presented before the people.

Speaking at the dastarbandi ceremony of religious students in Khuzdar, he said the MMA would not hide anything from the people.

“MMA would not make any underhand deal with the government on the issue of the Legal Framework Order or other matters,” Maulana Rehman said and added that whatever agreement would be reach with the government would be brought in the public.

He said the MMA and other opposition parties had adopted a joint stand on the LFO issue and were demanding that the government should present all the amendments, including it, through a constitutional package in parliament for discussion and approval.

“Only parliament has the right to accept or reject the constitutional amendments made by the military rulers and an individual cannot amend the constitution,” he said.

He President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s attitude towards parliament and said whenever military generals took over the government the country’s integrity and ideological frontiers had been threatened.

He said unconstitutional steps taken by Gen Musharraf were pushing the country towards disaster as its western frontier were not safe after the removal of the friendly Taliban government.

He said Indian secret agencies had established over 26 centres in Afghanistan, which were a threat to the country. He said Indian agents had attacked and ransacked Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul many times.

He said anti-Islam forces were hatching conspiracies to declare the religious parties terrorists. “We will not bow before these forces and would foil all such attempts with the support of the people,” the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam chief said.

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