LAHORE, May 12: MMA coordination secretary and Jamaat-i-Islami naib amir Liaquat Baloch has warned Gen Pervez Musharraf that he too will not remain in power if he dissolves assemblies.

Speaking at a three-day training workshop held for various wings of the Jamaat here on Monday, he said Gen Musharraf, unlike the past, should be ready to face a popular resistance if he did so.

“We neither want to snatch power nor have intentions to oust the incumbent government. We want supremacy of parliament and the constitution. If he (Musharraf) does not accept it, then we are left with no option but to look towards the masses,” he said.

The MMA was ready to face the music but would not accept dominance and control of army over the country’s governance system subduing sovereignty of parliament, he said.

Mr Baloch criticized Gen Musharraf for giving ‘provoking’ statements on TV about continuing as COAS at a time when the government and the opposition were engaged in talks on the issue.

Terming petition against qualification of 65 MMA MNAs in the Supreme Court a ploy to sabotage the talks, he said educational credentials of parliamentarians had been declared valid by all the four high courts, the Election Commission and the University Grants Commission before Oct 10 elections.

He said the army ruler wanted to give legal cover to 310 financial, educational and other ordinances issued during his three-year tenure while most of these “black laws” could not be accepted as they were against basic human rights.

KILLING CONDEMNED: Meanwhile, Jamaat amir Qazi Husain Ahmad has condemned the killing of a tenant by Rangers in a village at Okara military farms.

In a statement, he called the farm administration’s action of ousting the tenants cultivating the lands for the last two or three generations unjustified.

Demanding a probe into the incident, he said the officials involved in the killing must be arrested and tried, besides sincerely pondering upon the demand of the tenants for ownership rights.