 Smaller parties in the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) are angry with the two major component of the alliance for ignoring them on major decisions, sources told Daily Times on Thursday.
| Since Noorani croaked, MMA's become a vanity party for Qazi and, to a lesser extent, for Fazl... |
Small party leaders in the MMA said that the alliance's decision to launch a drive against General Pervez Musharraf had been made by the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), and the other smaller members of the MMA would not participate in the campaign.
| "Nope. Nope. Ain't gonna do it. We don't gotta if we don't wanna and you can't make us, so there!" |
Sources said the resignation of Syed Mehfooz Mashhadi, MMA's Punjab secretary general, who was from Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan-Noorani Group (JUP-N), indicated the differences within the alliance.
Mashhadi told Daily Times that Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Fazlur Rehman, heads of the JI and JUI-F, promoted only their party men. JI leaders held meetings supposedly of the MMA at which they imposed their decisions on the other parties, he said. The provincial leadership of MMA was oblivious of the decisions taken by the central shoora, he said. He claimed that Qazi Hussain Ahmed has admitted that the MMA's decision to support the 17th Constitutional Amendment was wrong. Qazi and Maulana Fazalur Rehman had also assured the chief of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD), Makhdoom Amin Fahim, that the MMA was ready to launch a joint movement with the ARD for the restoration of the Constitution.
Mashhadi said that Qazi did not take the other parties of the alliance into confidence on this decision except Maulana Fazalur Rehman. "In these circumstances, how can the other parties cooperate with the JI and JUI-F to make the tehreek against the government a success?" He said the MMA had already suffered a setback when Maulana Samiul Haq of the JUI-S quit the alliance in protest at the MMA's support of the Pakistan Muslim League in passing the 17th Amendment and added that Senator Professor Sajid Mir, Markazi Jamiat Ahle-Hadith chief, was mad at Qazi Hussain Ahmad, the MMA president, and Maulana Fazalur Rehman, the MMA secretary general, for supporting the amendment.
| Perv's apparently doing a good job of helping them break apart. The ghost of Anna Comnena sez she's impressed. |
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