Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said that "to dethrone" President Musharraf, it will launch 'Protest March' in Islamabad, according to the schedule, in September this year, even if no other opposition party supported to it.
Addressing a news conference at Mansoora here on Sunday, he said that the aim and objective of this march was to keep the Army away from the civil system and send it to borders to protect the country, which was its utmost responsibility and constitutional obligation.
He said that before going for the 'March', the MMA would contact the masses to take them into confidence. "We will present it in the form of a resolution before the nation the existing baffling state of affairs in the country, including, price hike, poverty, unsatisfactory law and order situation etc and the ills caused by military intervention in state affairs. Through this resolution, public support would also be mustered to stop military invention in state affairs, he said.
After getting approval from the nation, the resolution would be made part of MMA manifesto, the Qazi said. About the latest development regarding possibility of a political pact between Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto, the MMA chief said he could not say anything about it at the moment, and added: "I will comment on it when it is signed.'
He said that Amir Cheema was a brave son of the nation, and added that he had not committed suicide. He said that he had gone to the office of the Editor of the newspaper in which cartoon of the Holy Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) was published. He was arrested for only threatening the Editor and ultimately was assassinated in the custody of German police after being tortured. The MMA chief also criticised the government for not allowing the parents of Cheema to bury him in Rawalpindi.
Qazi said that Army was responsible for the adverse law and order situation of the country wherein people were fighting with each other due to wrong policies of the Army-backed rulers. "If the intervention of the Army in civil affairs was not stopped then the security of the country will be in jeopardy," he added.