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MMA to organise caravans after black day: Qazi
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) has announced to organize caravans across the country after January 1 ‘black day.’ The decision was announced in a press conference addressed by president of the six-party alliance Qazi Hussain Ahmad.
Qazi said the MMA wants the PPP to side with anti-Musharraf forces instead of trying to strike a deal with the establishment. "We desire that all opposition parties should launch a combined agitation against General Pervez Musharraf," he said.
He invited PML (N) Acting President Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and PPPP chief Makhdoom Amin Fahim at dinner on December 30 in Islamabad. The two leaders have already consented to attend the dinner while besides Qazi Hussain Ahmad, other mainstream MMA leader would also be present on the occasion.
The MMA president strongly dispelled the impression the government was trying to portray from the forthcoming courtesy call on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz by Leader of the Opposition Maulana Fazal-ur-Rahman.
"What is the status of Shaukat Aziz? Where does he matter? What power does he exercise in running the government? Where does he stand in the power corridors," asked Qazi Hussain Ahmad.
The MMA leader remarked, "we are chalking out agitation and the government-controlled media is giving the impression of a dialogue to be underway with the prime minister." "General Musharraf is a liar and cannot keep up his words, so there are no prospects of holding talks with him any time in future," he said. He said there could be no two opinions about the invalidity of the so-called legislation rushed through the parliament to legitimize Musharraf’s possession of army chief office.
"His indispensability pretext is costing professionalism of the armed forces very dearly," said Qazi Hussain Ahmad. The MMA leader said the gulf between people and the military ruler has widened to irreversible proportions.
He lashed out at Pakistan Television and Information Ministry for "pressing the media organisation to downplay the MMA protests campaigns." Qazi claimed the starting phase of the protest campaign was indeed a great success.
"The General should read the history of a fellow dictator’s (Field Marshall Ayub Khan) downfall who was the so-called all-powerful of his time," he said and added the protest campaigns and rallies started amid Section 144 but the two-person protest marches led to the political demise of the ‘pharaoh’ of his time. He advised General Musharraf to see the writing on wall and quit as promised with the nation and as amended in the constitution.
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