PESHAWAR, Sept 6: NWFP’s Senior Minister Sirajul Haq on Wednesday said that those trying to disintegrate the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) were in fact living in fool’s paradise.

Speaking at a public gathering, he said MMA was a religio-political alliance that had been working for rights of the poor and the oppressed.

Mr Haq, who is provincial chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, said the MMA government in the province had changed the culture of governance.

The alliance, he added, had launched a campaign to reform society by checking corruption, obscenity and vulgarity, imposed a ban on the sale of liquor, introduced Islamic banking to get rid of interest- and exploitation-based economy and reduced the burden of expensive loans.

Referring to rights of the NWFP, Mr Haq said the MMA government had started talks with centre for hydel net profit of Rs18 billion annually and arrears of Rs545 billion.

The residents of Turab Kalay village in union council Khazana led by Muhammad Noor Baba, Mehbub Khan and Khaista Rehman announced joining Jamaat-i-Islami on the occasion.—Agencies