ISLAMABAD: Differences between Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal President Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Secretary General Maulana Fazlur Rehman still persist and the former’s decision to collect the resignations of Jamaat-e-Islami parliamentarians amounts to distrust in the MMA Supreme Council, an MMA leader said on Wednesday. Qazi Hussain collected the resignations as JI chief, when he should have taken such a decision as the MMA president, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, MMA deputy secretary general, told reporters here. Qazi Hussain should have asked all MMA legislators to give him their resignations to use against the government, Hafiz Hussain said. “During the upcoming meeting of the Supreme Council, we will request both leaders not to make their differences public and resolve them in the Supreme Council.”
About the Alliance for the ARD’s threat to impeach President Musharraf and move a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Hafiz Hussain said this decision would strengthen military dictatorship. “If the ARD goes only for the impeachment of the president, the MMA will support the ARD,” he said. He said the ARD leadership had not taken the MMA into confidence on this issue. The MMA’s position on this would be decided in the Supreme Council meeting. He said that the ARD had fixed a July 31 deadline to start a protest campaign against the government but had not announced its strategy. He said the MMA had already announced its schedule of protests in major cities. He said the ARD leadership had been invited to participate in these gatherings.