HYDERABAD, Dec 8: A parliamentary leader of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) in the Sindh Assembly, Maulana Umer Sadiq, has said that the MMA is ready to cooperate with the PPP provided its leadership should tender an apology for issuing statements against MMA leaders.
He said this while addressing an Eid Milan party, hosted at the Madressah Shamsul Uloom, on the second day of Eid-ul-Fitr.
He said that negotiations with various political groups were going on in connection with the formation of Sindh government.
He said that it was the PPP which needed the support of the MMA or some other political party if it was interested in forming a coalition government in Sindh province, and added that the MMA did not close the doors of negotiations with other parties.
Mr Umer said that dialogue with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement was going on as well. He, however, disagreed with the Muttahida’s contention that there were no-go areas.
He said that the MMA had made its priorities clear to other parties for forming Sindh government.
He said that these priorities included elimination of co-education and double standards in the education department, and added that if the MMA was able to form a government in Sindh it would make arrangements for women to have a “separate education”.
Mr Umer vowed to include all those subjects and topics “pertaining to Jihad which had been deleted from the syllabus”.
He said that the pact with the PPP would be in the interest of both the country as well as the nation.
QARI SHER AFZAL: The acting secretary general, MMA, Qari Sher Afzal, told the gathering that if the session of the National Assembly had been held on time, then Maulana Fazlur Rehman would have been elected as the prime minister of the country.
He said that the United States felt that in case the MMA secured the top slot, then it would be difficult for the former to topple its government.
He said that the US feared that the MMA leaders had its roots in the masses which was why forward blocks had been formed, members of the parliament had been blackmailed, and had been issued threats of being implicated in National Accountability Bureau references.
He said that the members who had changed their loyalties and got ministries must remember that they would not be respected in the country.
Hafiz Raheem, Qari Usman, and Qari Kamran Ahmed also spoke on the occasion.
BODY: The A-section police station, Latifabad, has recovered the charred body of a woman from a garbage depot in Latifabad Unit No11 the other day.
The people of the locality had informed the police that a woman’s body was lying in the garbage depot opposite the 2-section School.
Police later handed over the body to Edhi volunteers after post-mortem.