LAHORE, Dec 12: Opposition leader in the National Assembly and MMA secretary-general Maulana Fazlur Rahman does not rule out the possibility of the NWFP chief minister attending the next National Security Council (NSC) meeting.

A decision in this regard will, however, be taken after going through the agenda of the meeting, he told a press conference here on Monday. The MMA as well as the other opposition parties have been refusing to attend NSC meetings as long as the forum is headed by Gen Musharraf instead of the prime minister.

Maulana Fazl said the opposition would not attend the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Quake Relief because the government had not yet removed its reservations about it.

Answering a question, he said as all opposition parties were in close contact with each other, they would soon form a grand alliance.

“We all are agreed not to accept dictatorship at any cost.”

Replying to a question about Nato forces in the quake-hit areas, he said they had reservations about the forces’ presence because they had landed only in Pakistan but not in any other country hit by quake.

He told a questioner that they would not accept registration of religious seminaries because the government had deviated from the agreed process.

“The government should first get enacted from the parliament a law for the purpose as decided in talks between the authorities and representatives of seminaries.”

Maulana Fazl denied the existence of any forward bloc in the NWFP, saying the media was over-projecting the issue.

“Petty differences (over some issues) cannot be named as forward bloc.”