 The Mutahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) will not hold talks with the government unless the ongoing government-MMA dialogue produces results, said Qazi Hussain Ahmed, MMA president on Thursday.
| That's called Islamic logic. Don't hold talks unless they produce results. |
Qazi, who is also the Jamaat-e-Islami ameer, said the MMA Supreme Council would decide about the agitation against the president's uniform in a meeting today (Friday). "President Musharraf will not be a constitutional president from January 1 if he does not hang up his uniform by December 31," Qazi told reporters after a Christmas party at the St John's Cathedral here. He said the 17th Amendment would lose its efficacy if the president did not hang up his uniform. "Our basic demand in the 17th Amendment was that the president would have to hang up his uniform by December 31 and if the government does not accept it, the amendment will have no value," he said. The JI ameer alleged that Musharraf was violating the Constitution. "He is a friend of America which is interfering in Pakistan's affairs and wants Pakistan to be a secular state," Qazi. He said the US wanted to change the syllabi of Pakistani schools and "Even the education minister says that there is no need to mention Islam in every textbook." He said the Aga Khan Board was part of the US global village agenda through which America wanted India and Pakistan to reunite. |