PESHAWAR, June 22: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal's (MMA) president Qazi Hussain Ahmad has said that the alliance's supreme council would make final decision regarding participation of Maulana Fazlur Rehman in the inaugural meeting of the National Security Council (NSC).

Talking to newsmen at Hassankhel, Frontier Region Peshawar on Tuesday he said that the supreme council would hold meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday where it would be decided whether or not Maulana Fazl should attend the NSC meeting as a oppositionleader.The meeting would alsodecideabout participation of the NWFP chief minister Akram Khan Durrani.

Asked about the killing of the tribal militant Nek Mohammad, Qazi claimed that US-forces had assassinated Nek Mohammad. He believed that the country's armedforces didn't possessprecisionmissile technology.

He said that the state agencies brought foreignersto Afghanistan to dislodge communist government in Kabul, but now they had been declared terrorists.

Earlier, speaking at a tribal jirga in Hassankhel, the JI leader criticized the government for using excessive force including air force to flush out alleged foreign and local militants from South Waziristan last week.

He regretted bombing on innocents civilians in the name of Al Qaeda and Taliban. He feared that the military action could create hatred between the tribesmen and the army. He said that President Musharraf had isolated Pakistan in the Muslim world, particularly in the region after providing logistic support to the US for its so-called war on terror.

He said the US was hatching conspiracies to create division among Muslims. He refuted the Governor's Fata Secretariat plan to restore late President Ayub's era Agency Council system in the tribal territories and demanded of the government to hold local bodies elections in Fata.

He said that powers should be transferred from the governor and political agents to the elected representatives of the area. Qazi Hussain also criticized the decision to ban political activities in the tribal area.