PESHAWAR, June 3: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Sami) chief Senator Maulana Samiul Haq on Sunday said he believed that the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal would split before the elections, saying major parties in the alliance would join hands with other mainstream political forces.

The MMA’s future was dark and it had less chances of winning seats in the elections, the former vice-president of the alliance told journalists at Noor mosque in Hayatabad.

The JUI-S had parted ways with the MMA over differences with the JUI (Fazl) and the Jamaat-i-Islami on some issues.

Maulana Sami said the JUI-F and the Jamaat-i-Islami, the two major parties of the MMA, would contest the elections from different platforms, one in alliance either with the People’s Party Parliamentarians or the Pakistan Muslim League and the other with the PML (Nawaz).

The senator said the MMA leadership had betrayed the masses on the day when it struck a deal with President Pervez Musharraf and favoured the Legal Framework Order, which caused unbearable loss to the nation and democracy.

“Now MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmed is regretting having supported Gen Musharraf on the issue of his military uniform and seeking apology from the nation, but apologising was not a remedy for the blunder,” he remarked.