ISLAMABAD July 20: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has warned that it would dissolve the NWFP and Balochistan assemblies if President Pervez Musharraf tried to get himself re-elected by the sitting assemblies.

Syed Munawar Hasan, Jamaat Islami’s secretary general, told newsmen here on Thursday.

He said that the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) was “in complete agreement” with the MMA on launching a “decisive movement” to remove the Musharraf-led government.

He claimed that in his recent talks with PML (N) president Shahbaz Sharif in London, it had been agreed to work together to eliminate army rule.

He quoted Mr Sharif as saying that the ARD had also agreed about the need for a grand opposition alliance to steer the country out of present crisis.

Shahbaz Sharif, he said, had also told him that no component party of the ARD would enter into a dialogue with the government.

About his failure to meet PPP leader Benazir Bhutto, Mr Hasan said that she was not in London during the course of his stay in London.

The ARD, he said, had assured the MMA that it would participate in the religious alliance’s mass contact movement and would also join in its anti-government movement.

Referring to the domestic situation, he said that poverty had enormously increased because of corruption and transfer of money abroad.