PESHAWAR, Jan 11: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (Noorani) on Sunday announced to dissociate itself from the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal in the NWFP while requesting its central council to part ways with the alliance at the federal level.

The party's provincial chief, Owais Ahmad Qadri, said that the JUP-N leaders would resign from all alliance offices, including its post in the Nifaz-i-Shariat Council.

He said that the party's executive council, which met here on Sunday, decided to request the NWFP Assembly's speaker to allocate a separate seat in the House for its lone member, Akhtar Nawaz Khan. The meeting was presided over by the JUP-N's provincial leader Abdul Ghafoor Goldwi.

Citing reasons for disassociating itself from the alliance, Mr Qadri accused two major MMA components of betraying smaller component parties, both at the provincial and federal levels.

The party, Mr Qadri said, was being unfairly treated since the alliance's inception, adding there was no reason for it to remain with the alliance any more.

He said that the alliance could have secured the Senate seat, which had fallen vacant after the death of Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani if it had negotiated in this regard with the government before striking a deal on the Legal Framework Order.

He said that the JUP was not getting proper representation in the provincial cabinet, Zakat committees and other decision- making bodies. He also complained that the JUP was also being sidelined on appointments, postings, transfers and allocation of funds for development schemes.

He said that the party had withdrawn the show-cause notice it had earlier served on its MPA, Akhter Nawaz Khan, for giving vote of confidence to President Gen Pervez Musharraf.