LAHORE, Dec 9: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Husain Ahmed says the situation has overtaken what he calls the un-Islamic law about women’s rights and now the MMA is determined to dislodge Gen Pervez Musharraf and install a democratic government in the country.

He has called a meeting of his party’s central executive for Tuesday to examine the decisions of the MMA’s supreme council and discuss the future course of action.

Qazi said while talking to this correspondent on Saturday that at present there was no non-controversial forum available in the country whose opinion about the disputed law was acceptable to people of all schools of thought.

He said even the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) was no longer in a position to resolve the controversy as it comprised ulema handpicked by Gen Musharraf. Others who were non-controversial had already resigned, he said.

President Musharraf reiterated on Saturday that the women’s rights law was Islamic in all respects and the government would enforce it.

“The law is un-Islamic, and Sunni and Shia ulema have the same view,” said the MMA president.

He said ulema meetings held recently at Jamia Ashrafia and Jamia Naeemia had also rejected the law as un-Islamic.

Qazi said the PPP and the ruling PML legislators who had abstained on the day of voting were in fact opposed to the new legislation as it was against the tenets of Islam.

Replying to a question, the MMA president said the religious alliance would not tolerate Gen Musharraf in power any more as he was out to implement the “US agenda.”

He alleged that the changes made in the curricula and attack on a religious seminary in Bajaur, which killed more than 80 people, had been carried out to please the US.

When asked if he could offer any workable formula to bring the standoff to an end, he said now the MMA would oust Gen Musharraf.