JI to boycott NA session: Qazi

Published December 11, 2006

CHARSADDA, Dec 10: MMA President and chief of Jamaat-i-Islami Qazi Husain Ahmed has reiterated that JI MNAs will not sit in the National Assembly until the MMA's Supreme Council implements its decision on the resignation issue.

Speaking at a press conference here on Sunday, Qazi Hussain said that the Jamaat MNAs would not attend National Assembly sessions until the MMA Supreme Council decided the matter.

In reply to a question about next elections, he said free and fair elections were impossible in the presence of Gen Pervez Musharraf.

The next elections will be engineered like those held in the past to ensure victory of a particular party, he said.

He criticised the military government for taking what he called a U-turn on issue of Kashmir.

He also condemned military operations in Waziristan and Bajaur agencies, and said that hundreds of innocent people had been killed in cold blood there.

He said President Gen Pervez Musharraf was a dictator and corps commanders had been forced to toe his line.

Gen Musharraf has made changes in the curricula to please his Western masters, he asserted.

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