PESHAWAR, May 22: A joint meeting of the provincial Majlis-i- Shoora and executive committee of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (JUP-Noorani) adopted a unanimous resolution on Sunday urged the supreme council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal to allow opposition leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani to participate in National Security Council (NSC) meetings in the interest of the province.

JUP provincial chief Owais Ahmad Qadri told journalists after the meeting that his party had suggested to the supreme council of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal to allow Maulana Fazl and Mr Durrani to attend the National Security Council meeting.

He said the participation of these leaders in the National Security Council would improve relations between the central and provincial governments which would be in the larger interest of the province.

The provincial chapters of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F), Jamiat Ahli Hadith and Millat-i-Islamia Pakistan, the other three component parties of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal had already asked the alliance’s supreme council to allow participation of Mr Rehman and Mr Durrani in the National Security Council.

A few days back the MMA’s central deputy general secretary Hafiz Hussain Ahmad had revealed that Mr Durrani had threatened resignation from chief ministership if he was not allowed participation in the NSC.

However, the next day Mr Durrani denied giving such threat to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal supreme council.

The JUP, a component of the six-party alliance, also passed resolutions regarding the desecration of the Holy Quran at Guantanamo Bay and disgracing of Muslim prisoners at The US detention centres in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The meeting also demanded that the provincial government should to take one of its members as adviser to the chief minister.

The JUP’s provincial general secretary Akhtar Nawaz, the party’s only member in the Frontier Assembly, is a minister in Mr Durrani’s cabinet.