KARACHI, Nov 20: Supreme council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal will meet here on Nov 24, to finalize its strategy for launching a movement to build pressure on President Gen Pervez Musharraf to give up his uniform of the chief of army staff by Dec 31, as per his commitment to the nation.

MMA chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad, who will preside over the council meeting, is due here on Tuesday evening, Jamaat-i-Islami spokesman Sarfraz Ahmad said.

The MMA chief has asked the local leadership to choose 40 spots in the city for holding protest rallies in case the administration decline permission to hold public meeting at Nishtar Park. The supreme council will also deliberate on the issue and finalize an alternate programme in this regard.

Meanwhile, the local leadership of the MMA has started meeting with leaders of other political parties who are against the policies of Gen Musharraf. In this connection, the MMA leadership of Karachi has started meeting with the leaders of opposition parties and inviting them to the scheduled public meeting.

On Saturday, local MMA chief Hafiz Muhammad Taqi and others met the central vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League-N, Mian Ejaz Shafi, and seek their cooperation at the local level.

MMA leaders Hafiz Muhammad Taqi, Sarfraz Ahmad and Yunus Barai exchanged views with the PML-N leader. There was consensus among them that the conditions prevailing in the country manifested that as if there was no rule of law and constitution in the country and people were being exploited in the name of good governance. Price hike, unemployment, lawlessness and corruption were at its peak and people who were facing cases under the National Accountability Bureau were ministers and advisers of the government.