A rise in extremist tendencies in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) is the outcome of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government’s “wrong policies”, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said on Saturday. Addressing a meeting of Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) leaders and workers at a hotel here, Sherpao said that he had warned that the MMA government was incapable of handling provincial affairs. He said that insecurity had gripped NWFP because of the MMA government’s flawed policies. The minister, who heads the PPP-S, said that his party would chalk out a solid strategy to fight extremism in NWFP. He said that the PPP-S would maintain its independent identity. About the judicial crisis, Sherpao said the government believed that the Supreme Judicial Council would uphold the rule of law while deciding on a presidential reference against suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. The PPP-S meeting also passed resolutions condemning terrorism and demanding compensation for rain-hit people and development funds for NWFP.