HYDERABAD, Dec 18: To mark the launching of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s country-wide movement on the LFO issue, MMA activists held a demonstration outside the press club here on Thursday.

They were led by Hyderabad MMA president Abdul Waheed Qureshi, Mohammad Hussain Qureshi, Maulana Shabbir Ahmad, Altaf Hussain Al-Hussaini, Rana Mehmood and other local leaders of the party.

Speaking on the occasion, the MMA leaders demanded that President Gen Pervez Musharraf should leave the army and the Legal Framework Order should be presented in parliament. They claimed that the government had given nothing to the people, except for joblessness and price hike.

They said Gen Musharraf was ruling the country with the support of the US and added that he should learn a lesson from history of other dictators.

The leaders of the MMA asked the president not to decide the Kashmir issue in violation of the UN resolutions. They called upon the people to reject such attempts.

MERGER: Five teachers’ associations at a joint meeting held at the Government High School-1 here on Thursday decided to merge with the Mehran Teachers’ Association, which would be renamed as the Sindh Mehran Elementary and Secondary Teachers’ Association.