A top leader of Maulana Samiul Haqâs Jamiat-ul-Ulema Islam (JUI-S) said on Saturday his party had âpracticallyâ parted ways with the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and would take a formal decision about the future of its relationship with the MMA at a meeting of its central executive council. âWe are a separate entity. We were dedicated members of the MMA, but the situation has completely changed now. For all practical purposes, we are no longer in the alliance,â Mufti Usman Yar Khan, deputy secretary general of the JUI-S, told Daily Times. Mr Khan, one of the four deputy chiefâs of Sindh MMA, said the alliance had drifted from its manifesto and its two leading parties, the JUI-Fazlur Rehman and the Jamaat-e-Islami, had made the six-party alliance a hostage. âThe smaller members of the alliance have become non-entities and are being given no importance in major decision-making,â he said. âVirtually, the religious alliance has become a show of two parties which have acquired self-assumed powers of vetoing any suggestions from their colleagues, no matter how worthy the suggestions are.â He said his party was unanimous in the decision to make the JUI-Sâs differences with the MMA public, and there was no dispute within his partyâs ranks.
| Being "practically" out isn't the same thing as being "out." If you're only practically out, then the other members of the alliance can suck up to you and massage your Fearless Leader's ego and ultimately cut him in for a bigger slice of the swag. If you're out, then you've actually got to perform on your own. |
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