Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmed said on Friday that the opposition parties would block former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s way if she attempted to gain power through the ‘backdoor’. Talking to reporters after Friday prayers at Masjid Mohabbat Khan, the JI Ameer, who is also the president of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), demanded the government appoint the Senate chairman as acting president in accordance with the Constitution and establish an independent election commission to hold fair and free elections. Qazi said that President General Pervez Musharraf’s policies had “demoralised the army” and he should either step down himself or be removed by the supreme court. The All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) had the option to resign en bloc in protest against General Musharraf’s re-election, he said.