ISLAMABAD Sept 22: The supreme council of the six-party Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) in its crucial meeting on Tuesday evening is likely to reject the government’s draft constitutional package and decide on launching a countrywide movement against President Pervez Musharraf,” MMA sources told Dawn on Monday.

It is not clear whether the MMA will give a deadline for a separation of the offices of president and chief of army staff or not, but it will take a hard line, one MMA leader said.

“We have no alternative but to go to the people and tell them the extent of flexibility that the religious alliance had offered and the rigidity that Gen Musharraf had shown throughout this process,” another senior MMA leader said.

The MMA has to decide whether it has to go on with the dialogue process at the cost of its credibility or to join the combined opposition in a final round of campaign to get rid of the army-led rule, a representative of the ARD said.

In the first phase of the drive a series of public meetings will be announced which will be followed by countrywide anti-regime demonstrations in which other opposition parties will also be invited to participate in a show of strength.

The sources said the MMA high command had already made a conclusion that if its efforts to resolve the constitutional crisis through sustained talks failed, it would go all-out to single out Gen Musharraf for the situation.

A senior MMA leader said the alliance had proved all through these ten months of talks that its leadership was neither narrow-minded nor extremist or inflexible in its political dealing.

He said the MMA had also been able to shed the general impression that the religious parties were ultimate allies of the army .