LAHORE, Jan 11: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Husain Ahmad is understood to have deferred his decision to tender resignation from the alliance leadership and discus this issue at the next meeting of the MMA’s supreme council.

The MMA president was said to have given the gesture at a meeting with Senator Sajid Mir, the Markazi Jamiat Ahl-i-Hadith president, here on Thursday where it was decided that all controversial issues pertaining to the alliance’s internal affairs would be discussed at the supreme council before making them public under a consensus.

According to a press release, Mr Husain met the senator at his office at Ravi Road where the two leaders also discussed the issue of resignations of the MMA chief, its legislators as part of its anti-government campaign and the nomination of Prof Sajid Mir as the new chief by Qazi Husain Ahmad.

Prof Mir pleaded with the Qazi not to leave the office as such a move would harm the MMA’s movement against the regime at a critical stage. He said the MMA must be strengthened to achieve the cherished goal.

The Ahl-i-Hadith leader has always pleaded for a collective decision on quitting assemblies and that, too, at a stage when the anti-government agitation had reached a stage where the resignations card could prove decisive.