ISLAMABAD, Oct 4: Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, secretary-general of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F), has advised Jamaat-i-Islami amir and MMA president Qazi Hussain Ahmad not to try to ‘become Gorbachev’ by forcing his policy of dissent on the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and warned that if he insisted on doing that the alliance of six religious parties would be in ‘dire straits’.

He was commenting on Qazi Hussain’s insistence that the MMA lawmakers in the NWFP assembly should resign along with those of the other parties in the APDM. The JI Amir has also been reported as saying that if JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman did not accept his advice, the provincial lawmakers of the Jamaat would go ahead and resign on Friday.

Talking to reporters here, Maulana Haideri said that while the APDM unanimously decided that the NWFP assembly should be dissolved, it appeared from the attitude of Qazi Hussain that he would like the dissolution of the MMA instead.

He warned that if the MMA was harmed in any way the responsibility for it would lie squarely on the shoulders of the JI amir.

He said that all components of the APDM, including the JI, abide by the unanimous decision of the APDM about dissolution of the NWFP assembly.

Meanwhile, parliamentary leader of the MMA in the National Assembly Liaquat Baloch has said that unity in the ranks of the religious alliance should be maintained at all cost and there must be consensus on it move, whether for the dissolution of the assembly or resignation.