RAWALPINDI, July 21: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) President Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said that holding of both the offices of president and army chief by Gen Pervez Musharraf is unlawful and immoral.

Speaking at a press conference here on Friday, the MMA leader said Gen Musharraf should have put off his uniform after December 31, 2004, as he had pledged. But he backed out and this made his position unlawful, he added.

He also put forward four demands, which were resignation of Gen Musharraf as president, an interim government after consensus, restoration of constitution in its original form as that prior to October 12, 1999, and an independent election commission.

The MNA said his party would like to achieve these changes through parliamentary struggle, but it seemed impossible. He said all opposition parties were united on these issues.

“We have given the government July 31 deadline and after that an anti-government movement will be launched in collaboration with other opposition parties.”

Disclosing his party’s plan of a mass contact campaign, Mr Ahmed said two rallies - one on August 14 at Liaquat Bagh Rawalpindi and the other on September 6 at Minar-i-Pakistan Lahore - would of decisive nature.

When asked to comment on filing of an FIR against him in Attock after MMA’s rally there, Mr Qazi said he expected worse than this from the present establishment.—Mudassir Iqbal Raja