LAHORE, Sept 29: Jamaat-i-Islami and JUI-F leaders have alleged that intelligence agencies are out to develop cracks in the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal as after the JUI-S and the JUP, the MJAH is also planning to announce its dissociation with the NWFP government.

JI leader and MMA deputy secretary-general Liaquat Baloch said on Monday there was an understanding when the alliance formed the NWFP government that all the constituents would be accommodated in the provincial cabinet.

However, he said as the issue was being projected it suggested that the federal government through intelligence agencies wanted to blackmail the MMA on the LFO issue.

He warned that the manoeuvring would worsen the situation.

A central JUI-F leader, who wished not to be named, claimed that all the MMA components had been told to nominate their MP(s) as minister in the NWFP cabinet when a decision to expand the cabinet was taken one-and-a-half months ago.

“But no party, especially those which are threatening to quit the alliance, has so far submitted any name in this regard,” he claimed.

Smaller constituents of the alliance were bringing some local issues before the media instead of solving them through various fora of the MMA on a signal from some quarters, he alleged.

He also claimed that the legislator, who threatened on Sunday to stop his support to the provincial government if he was not given representation in the cabinet within eight days, had elected to the NWFP Assembly as an independent MPA and later joined the JUP.

MMA information secretary and JUP central leader Pir Ijaz Hashmi said he as well as Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani were unaware about the recent development in the NWFP.

He said an inquiry would be held against the provincial JUP leaders for leaking their complaints, if any, to the media instead of bringing them in the notice of the party high command.

A MJAH spokesman here said the MMA leaders had promised to give the portfolio (of health) to Dr Zakir Rahman Salman Shah. But the promise has not so far been fulfilled.

The spokesman claimed that his party was also planning to withdraw its support to the NWFP government if Mr Shah was not included in the provincial cabinet soon.