PESHAWAR, July 22: Members of three of the six component parties of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) staged a protest on Thursday over non-inclusion of their MPAs in the NWFP cabinet.

The protest came in the wake of news reports about induction of new ministers in the provincial cabinet.

Many workers of Jamiat Ulema-i-Pakistan (JUP), Markazi Jamiat Ahl-i-Hadithand Islami Tehrik-i-Pakistan participated in the strike camp set up in front of the Peshawar Press Club.

They demanded of Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani to honour and implement the decision of the MMA's central council.

The council, they said, had decided to take two ministers each from Jamaat-i-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (F) and one each from the rest of the four parties but the chief minister had not carried out the decision.

They also demanded the post of advisers to the chief ministers for the leaders of their respective parties.

The district committees of the MMA should be empowered to solve problems of the people, they said, and demanded representation of parties of the MMA in the local Zakat committees.-APP