ISLAMABAD, Aug 20: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) on Friday announced that it would boycott the forthcoming electoral process for the prime minister unless the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) came up with an 'alternative proposal'.

Briefing newsmen after a meeting of the supreme council of the MMA, the alliance's president Qazi Hussain Ahmed said the meeting decided not to take part in the process, but offered to the ARD to review its decision and present a better proposal.

The meeting decided to convene an all parties conference against military operation in Balochistan and an ulema conference against security agencies' raids on religious institutions and to launch a countrywide mass mobilization movement against the rampant price hike and unemployment.

The meeting discussed the 'attempts' being made by some forces to misguide President General Pervez Musharraf against fulfilling his promise to relinquish the army chief's post by an appointed date (December 1, 2004).

The MMA said that those who were persuading the president to 'violate' the provisions of the agreement between the government and the MMA on the uniform issue were in fact committing act which would lead to chaos and anarchy.

The meeting also discussed the fierce fighting raging in Iraq between allied forces and the people of that country and demanded an immediate halt to brutal American air strikes on civilian population.

It demanded an emergency meeting of the OIC to discuss and propose a unified strategy against the foreign occupation of Iraq. The alliance rejected the composition of the Council for Islamic Ideology by expressing its lack of trust in the scholarly abilities of its members and demanded its reconstitution by involving competent and independent religious scholars.