PESHAWAR, Jan 18: The Pakistan People's Party has vowed that its democratic struggle against what it called the "unconstitutional, immoral and illegal" rule of Gen Pervez Musharraf and his allies will continue in and outside parliament till the return of a democratic dispensation.

Commenting on the president's address to parliament here on Sunday, PPP provincial chief Khwaja Mohammad Khan Hoti said it was full of contradictions, because those who had been involved in terrorist activities had signed an accord on the Legal Framework Order with the government.

It didn't suit Gen Musharraf to make tall claims about waging a Jihad against terrorism, he added. He criticised the MMA for what he saw as its double role on the LFO, "which had legalised all the unconstitutional steps by the military government."

The MMA leadership had made a mockery of the rule of law and democratic traditions by validating the LFO, he added. Mr Hoti said the most corrupt people, who had been on the list of National Accountability Bureau, were now a part of the federal cabinet and giving lectures on corruption.