Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Central Secretary General and Opposition leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that MMA party heads' meeting would be held in the first week of May to decide its policy regarding the next presidential election.
He was talking to journalists here at "Ulema Mushaikh Convention" held under the aegis of the MMA (Punjab chapter) here on Sunday.
He said that MMA would take all opposition parties into confidence on presidential election and formulate a joint strategy in his regard. To a query Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that political deal always damage the parties and if any party makes a deal with the present government, it would discourage its own political workers. This act, he said, would also provide a chance to Ch. Shujaat Hussain for saying that patriots had taken a nice decision to support the government.
"MMA honours the public mandate and we have asked all the opposition parties to give their viewpoint regarding the presidential election and to follow a joint strategy on this issue. Only joint policy can solve this issue but I must clear that MMA is not in favour of uniform" he added.
Earlier, addressing the convention Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that MMA government had set up a women university, a separate medical college and women sports directorate in NWFP. He said that in December 2002 there were some 104 women colleges but MMA backed government opened 80 new colleges in the province. He said that our government was providing free of cost education till matriculation and middle education was compulsory in province. Each female student was being paid stipend of Rs 200 and after imposing of a ban on co-education, 26 percent enrolment had been increased in NWFP, he said.
Maulana said that MMA could challenge anybody comparing past 50 years' performance to our last four-years in NWFP. He said that the MMA government had banned Aga Khan Board and not a single school could affiliate with it in NWFP in future. Maulana further said that international organisations had reported that Punjab was No 1 in corruption, Sindh stood second, Balochistan third and NWFP gave minimum score in it.
Our provincial government had distributed Rs 9,000 million among earthquake victims and we had proved wrong this impression that religious community was biased, he added. He condemned the suicide attack at Charsadda and said that it was a planned terrorism act and a result of wrong polices taken by the federal government. Today General Musharraf also admitted that if United States had no confidence on Pakistan, then the two countries should end the cooperation against war on terrorism.