PESHAWAR, July 18: NWFP senior minister and provincial JI amir Sirajul Haq has said that women have been in the forefront of national movements while Islamic history is replete with deeds and sacrifices of women. However, he said, it was high time for Pakistani women to play their role for removal of the dictatorship and upholding of the supremacy of the democratic order in the country and establishing a united forum from the platform of the MMA for this purpose.

He was addressing a gathering of women at Jamia Alfalah Shaheen Town Peshawar on Tuesday. The minister said that the MMA was a national movement of religious and political awareness that aimed at closing all backdoors of the dictatorship that had weakened the institutions.

Contradicting reports about differences among leadership of the MMA, he said that the MMA was a united and strong alliance and was capable of protecting democracy and enforcing the laws of Islam in the country.

He deplored that Pakistan was insecure despite the fact that it had been a nuclear power while the Ummah had been encircled by anti-Muslim forces and that threat could be averted by unity and religious spirit.-—PPI