NOWSHERA, Aug 12: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, an alliance of religious parties, will start its countrywide election campaign from Peshawar in the last week of August.

This was stated by the alliance senior vice-president and chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, while speaking at various public meetings in district Nowshera on Saturday.

He said the central leadership of MMA would come to Peshawar from Attock in a vehicular procession from where they would start its election campaign with a train march to Karachi.

The alliance chief, Maulana Shah Ahmad Noorani, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Maulana Samiul Haq, Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi and Prof Sajid Mir will lead the train march.

Qazi said during the train march the alliance leaders would address public meetings at various railway stations and present the MMA manifesto to the masses.

Besides train march, he said, public meetings and rallies would be organised in the four province to mobilise the masses.

He asked the government to lift ban on political activities.