Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal President and Amir of Jamaat-i-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmad made it clear that no member of party of the MMA will give safe passage to General Pervez Musharraf.
Addressing a news conference after the JI meeting on Friday, Qazi Hussain Ahmad pointed out that the MMA Secretary General Maulana Fazlur Rehman never said any thing about providing safe passage to General Musharraf and he rejected it.
He went on to say that a specific lobby was trying to create creaks in the MMA but the member parties would foil this conspiracy as the voters wanted the unity of the alliance. He said a wrong propaganda was launched through media to damage the MMA.
The MMA president announced that a senior lawyers' team was set up to file petition against General Musharraf in the Supreme Court in massacre in Karachi on May 12 and killing of innocent female and male students. He hoped the All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) historic public meeting at Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on August 14 would play an important role for the removal of the present rulers. He said that they adopted a strategy to succeed the APDM public gathering on August 14 and several committees were set up for bringing people in it.
He advised the member parties of the APDM to start preparations for the August 14 public meeting. Qazi Hussain Ahmad said main objectives of the APDM are restoration supremacy of the constitution, removal of military dictator, ending of army interference in politic, formation of caretaker government, holding of free and fair elections, setting up of independent Election Commission and restoration of the constitution in it shape before on October 12, 1999.
He pointed out that according to the APDM decision; General Musharraf is unacceptable in uniform and without it. He claimed that the US attitude with Pakistan is very humiliated as their rulers have become slave of the America, adding that the terrorism has become big threat to the security of the country.
Welcoming the Supreme Court decisions about the reinstatement of Chief Justice and release of Javed Hashmi, Qazi Hussain Ahmad hoped the judiciary would also take decision according to law and justice in the interest of country in the future.
To a question about his resignation, the MMA president termed his resignation as first drop of rain for the restoration of democracy and supremacy of the constitution and all resignations would be tender through the APDM platform to present re-election of President Musharraf.