ISLAMABAD, Dec 8: At least four members of the National Assembly belonging to the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal have refused to accept the alliance’s decision of referring back the decision of resigning from the house to its supreme council.

The council had already decided that all MMA MNAs would quit their seats and Thursday’s parliamentary party meeting had been convened only to decide the mechanism, they are reported to have said.

According to sources, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazl), Dr Sahibzada Abul Khair Mohammad Zubair and Dr Farida Ahmed of the JUP and Mohammad Hanif Abbasi of the Jamaat-i-Islami declared in the parliamentary party meeting that they were not ready to withdraw their resignations as they had resigned in accordance with the earlier decision of supreme council.

Hafiz Hussain, who is facing disciplinary action by his party for his outbursts in the parliamentary party meeting and has been stripped of the office of deputy parliamentary leader of the MMA in the National Assembly, has said that he will not return to the present assembly anyway as he had declared that he would resign if the women’s protection bill was passed by the lower house.