HYDERABAD, Jan 13: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) Sindh President Maulana Asadullah Bhutto said on Saturday that Gen Musharraf, Shaukat Aziz and Arbab Ghulam Rahim had forfeited their right to remain in office after Supreme Court chief justice described law and order situation in the country as deteriorated.

Mr. Bhutto said while addressing a news conference at the press club on Saturday that lawlessness in the province had crossed all limits. Only this day unknown assailants killed the editor of "Nijaat" Rafique Hashmi in Sukkur in what he described as a frontal attack on the freedom of press.

He claimed that the opposition parties had consensus on one point - get rid of Gen Musharraf. The general had given nothing to the country but poverty, hunger, rampant unemployment and lawlessness during his seven years rule, he said.

Mr. Bhutto said that majority of people had taken to streets to record their protest over the so-called women’s law and now Punjab government was organising a marathon race, which was against the country’s culture and traditions.

He said that a conspiracy was afoot to exclude Quranic verses from the syllabus as well as chapters on the life of Holy Prophet (PBUH), His companions and Muslim saints.

He opposed the sale of Sindh's islands and said that obscenity and vulgarity would be promoted on the islands under the garb of development. Gen Musharraf had again raised the bogey of Kalabagh Dam, which was not within his authority. The issue of Kalabagh Dam pertained to prime minister and not to Gen Musharraf, he added.

He announced that MMA would organise a "Remove Musharraf and Save the Country", rally in Sukkur on January 18.

MMA leaders Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Liaquat Baloch, Syed Munawar Hassan and other leaders of opposition parties would address the public meeting, he said and added that invitations had been issued to ARD chief Makhdoom Mohammad Amin Fahim, Maulana Fazalur Rehman and Syed Qaim Ali Shah.