Breaks in the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) ranks in Mansehra district were visible recently, as Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) leaders has got closer to NWFP opposition leader Shahzada Mohammad Gustasap Khan. MMA Mansehra district Ameer and JUI-S spokesman Maulana Qazi Rafiqur Rehman Qamar on Monday told journalists that the unnecessary delay in enforcing Sharia law in the NWFP, the MMA leadership’s policy of sidelining the alliance’s smaller component parties and holding the provincial government hostage by non-elected people had compelled the JUI-S to contact like minded parties and groups to chalk out a future strategy.
| "Sami's ego's outgrown the MMA, y'see..." |
He said Senator Maulana Samiul Haq, National Assembly Deputy Speaker Sardar Mohammad Yaqoob, NWFP Deputy Speaker Ikramullah Shahid, Shahzada Mohammad Gustasap Khan and MMA National Assembly member from Karachi, Maulana Qari Gul Rehman Hazarvi, would reach Mansehra on February 22. He said the leaders would meet to plan strategy and a number of disgruntled JUI-F NWFP Assembly members were likely to join them. Maulana Samiul Haq would brief the meeting about the basic objectives behind the Pak-Afghan Defence Council, Milli Yakjehti Council and MMA’s formation and would give reasons for parting ways with the six-party religious alliance.
| Pak-Afghan Defense Council organized the riots when we attacked Afghanistan. It was a larger, more loosely linked version of the MMA, which spun off from it. |
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