Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal Deputy General Secretary Liaquat Baloch said the MMA and ARD have agreed upon three points. First, General Pervez Musharraf should resign and no political party should strike any deal with a military General or the establishment. Second, he said, the two alliances should struggle for restoration of the 1973 constitution as was on October 1999 and third; the election commission must be independent that can hold free and fair elections. In an interview to Radio Tehran, Liaquat Baloch, who is also the Amir of Jamaat-i-Islami Punjab, pointed out that these three points were agreed upon at the residence of Raja Zafarul Haq.
Since then, the PPP had neither made any progress nor given any positive response in this regard, the opposition leader said.
Baloch further said, there were also reports about the PPP's contacts with army Generals and the establishment and the PPP leadership itself was admitting such activities.
"If the PPP strikes a deal with the government, we will continue our struggle with other opposition parties that agree with our charter," stated the MMA leader.
In reply to a question, he said the MMA's mass contact campaign is currently underway and added at this stage, our programme is to launch campaigns in Kasur, Okara and Sahiwal on May 11 and in Jhang, Sargodha and Faisalabad on May 12.
"We can decide about a final round or showdown at any time," he maintained.
Responding to another question as to why the province of Punjab has been chosen as the base of MMA's anti-govt movement, Baloch clarified that Punjab was a big province and it had deep impacts on the country's politics.
Punjabis hate the present government, the opposition politician claimed. As far as the NWFP is concerned, the MMA governs the province and it is already opposed to the policies of General Musharraf.
In Balochistan, no political movement could so far cast its compacts. Punjab, therefore, was an important center for every movement and that was why, the MMA while focusing on the provinces had accelerated its mass contact drive there, he explained.
Regarding desecration of the Holy Quran in Guantanamo Bay by the US forces and publication of a derogatory cartoon in a US daily, Liaquat Baloch alleged the government was helpless because General Musharraf had sold the county's prestige and valour in the hands of the United States.
The cartoon published in a leading US newspaper was not about Pakistan, but it was about General Musharraf, he argued.
Similarly, he said American soldiers were continuously mistreating Muslim prisoners at its detention centers in Afghanistan, Iraq and even in the United States, he blamed.
"The way the Holy Quran has been desecrated in the Guantanamo Bay is enough to open the eyes of the entire world".
"The two incidents expose how much respect the United States has for religions and basic human rights," he said adding "we are protesting over the incidents."
The MMA would stage protests over the incident all over the country on Friday, he announced.
"The MMA, he said has also submitted its motions in the National Assembly according to rules".
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