ISLAMABAD: The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) on Friday offered to back down on demands that President Pervez Musharraf step down and undergo an election process, if he agreed to leave the army and make Islamic law (Sharia) supreme. âWe are ready to give Gen Musharraf some concessions if our demands that Sharia be made supreme law, Friday be declared a holiday and the recommendations of the Islamic Ideology Council be implemented are met,â Jamaat-e-Islamiâs (JI) Hafiz Hussain Ahmed said. Interest would also have to be abolished from banking. The JI could then endorse Gen Musharrafâs presidency without forcing him to quit and undergo a standard election by the parliament, as JIâs coalition partners and other opposition parties demand. However, the JI will still expect Musharraf to commit to a deadline for shedding his army uniform, Mr Ahmed said. âIf all these demands are met, we are ready to back his election as president or we can endorse his presidency.â
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