LAHORE, March 22: The MMA leaders on Saturday reviewed arrangements for Sunday’s million-man march from Nasser Bagh to Assembly Hall and declared all set.

Heads of the six alliance constituents as well as ARD president Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, PML-N chief Javed Hashmi, Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan and Dr Israr would speak to the demonstrators.

The PPP leadership has not yet confirmed its participation as party’s Punjab president Qasim Zia says chairperson Benazir Bhutto cannot be approached to seek a green signal.

MMA vice-president Qazi Husain Ahmad along with local leaders of the religious alliance visited Nasser Bagh to give final touches to the march. He also held meetings with representatives of Anarkali Bazaar and other adjacent markets and invited them to the march.

The MMA had already organized two big marches — one each in Karachi and Rawalpindi on March 3 and 9, respectively.

Deputy secretary-general Liaquat Baloch says the Lahore march has become all the more important in the face of US invasion of Iraq. “The march will have far-reaching effects both at national and international level.”

He said thousands of corner meetings and rallies had been held and camps established in and around the Lahore district to make the event a success.

A press release issued by the JUP says its activists from across the Punjab would participate in the march in shape caravans of hundreds of buses and cars.

Mujaddid: Justice Ghulam Mujaddid Mirza (retired) has urged the United Nations to use all its powers to bring an end to the US-UK aggression against Iraq, as a result of which countless innocent people, including women and children, had lost their lives.

Talking to newsmen here on Saturday, the former judge of the Supreme Court said the very fate of the world organization was linked with its role in the present crisis.

The UN would survive if it succeeded in halting the unjustified and devastating war, imposed in contravention of all human, democratic and legal values.

In case the UN failed, it would be a casualty like the people whose lives it was supposed to save, Justice Mirza said.

He regretted that the war had been imposed by two countries who called themselves champions of democracy, human rights and values.

He said history bore testimony that many people in the past had tried to suppress the weak on account of their gun power, but today nobody remembered them. Those who did, had no favourable remarks for such characters, he said.

Justice Mirza believed that the fate of the aggressors of the present era would be no different.

He recalled that except for a few countries the entire world was opposed to war against Iraq. Democracy demanded that the opinion of the majority should have been respected at all costs. But, he said, he felt hurt when a couple of countries trampled the world opinion and targeted an innocent country for their own interests.

Justice Mirza said a ridiculous statement had been made by a British official that while the people were being mercilessly killed, the Baghdad zoo should be spared.