MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 1: Senior minister of the NWFP Sirajul Haq on Wednesday rejected the proposal made by President Pervez Musharraf for the resolution of the Kashmir dispute and said the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal would forcefully oppose any plan to divide Kashmir.

He was speaking at an Eid Millan party organized by the AJK Jamaat-i-Islami here. AJK Jamaat-i-Islami chief Sardar Ejaz Afzal presided over the function which was attended, among others, by dozens of women workers of the JI.

Mr Haq said acceptance of Gen Musharraf's proposal would mean wasting the sacrifices of Kashmiri people which was unacceptable not only to the people of Kashmir but also to the people of Pakistan.

"No individual has a right to float such unacceptable proposals without holding a prior debate on them in parliament or taking the national parties and jihadi and political leadership of Kashmir into confidence," he said. Participants raised their hands when he asked them to show their rejection of Gen Musharraf's suggestion.

"Those who got tired of the Kashmir jihad have not shed a single drop of their blood for this cause. In fact the blood has been offered by the Kashmiris who are still firm in their stand but the Pakistani rulers are now scared despite living in a safe place in Islamabad," Mr Haq said.

He said any decision about the jihad would be taken by the mujahideen and not by those living in Islamabad. The Kashmiris, he said, had not offered sacrifices for the restoration of cricket or trade ties or for the resumption of any bus service between India and Pakistan, but for the implementation of the UN resolutions which gave them an opportunity to decide their fate on their free will.

The NWFP minister said the people of the Frontier province were emotionally attached to the Kashmiris and had been offering sacrifices for the cause since 1947. "Even today, we are ready to offer sacrifices.

If Syed Ali Geelani makes an appeal, hundreds of thousands of youth would say yes to it," he said, pointing out that the there were 2,200 graves of the people from his Dir district alone in Kashmir.

Mr Haq said he had come to Muzaffarabad to convey a message to the Kashmiris on behalf of 150 million Muslims of Pakistan that 'we were with you and we are with you until you achieve your goal'.

He said the Muslim Ummah was facing problems due to weak leaders. "At present the Ummah's condition is like an army without a general or a garden without a gardener which is why the rulers of the Muslim world support infidels in the battle between the right and the wrong," he said, adding the Ummah needed a true and bold leadership more than atom bombs, huge armies and other resources.