PESHAWAR, March 7: Jamaat-i-Islami Amir Qazi Hussain Ahmad said here on Sunday that the Hasba Bill would be presented in the NWFP Assembly for approval in forthcoming session.

The assembly is holding its session on Monday, summoned on requisition by the joint opposition. Qazi Hussain told PPI after the JI parliamentary meeting at Al Markaz-i-Islami, provincial secretariat of the party, that he had directed the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) government in the province to move the bill in the session for approval.

About the Ombudsman department, he said it was a constitutional right of the provinces to have the Department of Ombudsman. Punjab, he pointed out, had already set up the department.

The Hasba Bill came under discussion in the JI parliamentary party meeting and it was decided that the MMA would not delay the introduction of the bill, he said.

Qazi Hussain said the protest movement in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and its adjacent areas would be launched against the ongoing army operation in the tribal areas. "We urge the government to stop brutal actions against the tribesmen and let them live in peace."

He said the MMA wanted to bring the government on democratic track and force the president to give up the powers he was exercising "unconstitutionally". "The prime minister is the chief executive of the country and should be allowed to run the government in accordance with the Constitution," the JI Amir further said.

The MMA, he went on to say, wanted a joint struggle of all the political forces inside and outside parliament to work for the restoration of a true parliamentary democratic government in the country. For the restoration of a genuine democracy, "we are ready to cooperate with all the political parties", he added.