The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) will try to convince Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) chief Maulana Samiul Haq to join the religious alliance in its campaign against the WomenÂ’s Protection Act (WPA), MMA sources told Daily Times on Sunday. The sources said that the MMA would contact Haq in a couple of days to seek his partyÂ’s support against the WPA. They said that after postponing their decision on resignations from the National Assembly, MMA leaders had decided to contact opposition parties against the WPA.
“Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl had agreed at an MMA Supreme Council meeting on December 7 to postpone decision on resignations from the assembly to muster maximum support from the opposition parties against the WPA. Now the party will step up its campaign to contact religious and political parties against the WPA,” a senior MMA leader said.
MMA Supreme Council Member Qari Gul Rehman said the alliance would try its best to save the “sanctity” of religion, adding that the opposition was being contacted against the WPA. He said the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) had responded positively to their suggestions.
Samiul Haq said his party always sacrificed for the MMA, but it got nothing from the alliance in return. “The MMA has always supported the government through underhand deals,” Haq said. He said the JUI-S would start an anti-WPA campaign on its own that would be “effective than that of the MMA’s”.