PESHAWAR, Oct 7: The JUI (F) accused the Jamaat-i-Islami of betraying and abandoning the NWFP chief minister who is facing a no-confidence resolution moved by the opposition.

Differences aggravated between two major components of the MMA when Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) lawmakers on Saturday filed a no-confidence motion against NWFP Assembly Speaker Bakht Jehan Khan, who belongs to Jamaat-i-Islami.

“The APMD had decided on dissolution of the assembly and not resignations. The alliance’s parties left us alone to face the no-confidence motion in the assembly,” JUI-F provincial secretary-general Maulana Shuja-ul-Mulk said at a news conference here on Sunday.

He said that if the JI believed in principles it should ask the NWFP assembly speaker to resign. He said the JUI (F) had accepted all decisions of the APDM after expressing some reservations.

“Our parliamentarians have quit seats in the national and Balochistan assemblies to block President Musharraf’s re-election.”

Had the NWFP speaker convened the assembly session in time to enable the APDM members to demonstrate their confidence in the chief minister, the no-confidence move could have been thwarted and the assembly dissolved, he said.

Mr Mulk alleged that the Jamaat had never taken the MMA into confidence on crucial decisions, such as resignations of Qazi Hussain Ahmad and Haroon Rashid from the National Assembly and Sirajul Haq’s resignation as senior minister from the NWFP cabinet.

“The JI chief also didn’t consult the JUI (F) when he filed a petition against the presidential election in the Supreme Court. Qazi Hussain Ahmad has always blackmailed and tried to impose his personal decisions on the MMA,” he added.

JUI-F secretary-general said that women MPAs Rukhsana Naz and Yasmin Khalid had been expelled from the party long ago.