LAHORE, Jan 6: The police force in the NWFP and Balochis-tan will comply with the orders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal governments there and not the US agency FBI, says MMA vice-president Maulana Samiul Haq.

Talking to reporters after meeting Alliance for Restoration of Democracy president Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan here on Monday, he said the MMA governments in both the provinces would not tolerate operations of foreign agencies.

He said the army was meant for safeguarding borders of the country and if it would welcome foreign forces on borders then there would be no logic for maintaining the institution.

Mr Haq said the MMA did not want to destabilize the Jamali government. But, if it sided with the United States in attack on Iraq, it would have to face a severe resistance.

He said they were ready to accept Gen Musharraf as president if he resigns as army chief. “We want to democratize Musharraf.”

Mr Haq, who is also chief of his own faction of the JUI, said he had discussed cooperation with the Nawabzada between the ARD and the MMA in the forthcoming Senate polls.

He regretted that the severest kind of horse trading was going on to ‘purchase’ MPs for the Senate polls.

Mr Haq earlier called on PML-Q parliamentary leader Chaudhry Shujaat Husain at the latter’s residence here and discussed with him bombing of Pakistani area by the US planes, Washington’s propaganda against Islamabad’s nuclear programme and new US immigration laws.

He urged the PML-Q leader to use his influence to check US forces operation in the country.

Former adviser to the governor Tahir Ashrafi also hosted a lunch for Maulana Sami.

PML-Q’s Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor, PPP’s Abdul Qadir Shaheen, JUP’s Pir Ijaz Hashmi, JUI-F’s Hafiz Riaz Durrani were also present on the occasion.

Mr Haq expressed the fear that the foreign agencies would reach (Pakistan’s nuclear station) Kahuta if their activities were not checked right now.

He believed that the US was intentionally worsening situation in the NWFP and Balochistan to make provincial MMA governments launch anti-Washington campaign and strain their relations with the federal government.

Mr Haq said Jihadi outfits, seminaries and religious parties would be the prime target in case of any anti-US movement in the country.

Welcoming the NWFP Assembly’s resolution against Washington, he said it was a message to the super power that the nation was united and it should refrain from taking steps against Pakistan.

NWFP assembly deputy speaker Ikramullah Shahid said efforts to implement Islamic laws in the province were going on and the process would be hopefully completed within a couple of months.

Defending provincial assembly’s resolution against the US, he said the step was within the bounds of the constitution and it was for this reason that the assembly, after adopting the resolution, had sent it to the centre for an appropriate action.

He believed that Islamabad would not impose governor’s rule in the NWFP as the MMA enjoyed a comfortable majority in the assembly.

He said the provincial government was giving attention to improve law and order, education and health sectors and eliminate the culture of vulgarity and obscenity.

The MMA government was also trying to introduce penal code according to Islamic injunctions, he concluded.