The Muttahida Majlis-e-Aamal (MMA) on Wednesday said that it would push forward with its agitation against the government till Islamic order was enforced and dictators were removed from power. The MMA held the much-trumpeted million-man march in Lahore on Wednesday at Azadi Chowk near Iqbal Park, the venue for the historic Lahore Resolution passed on March 23, 1940. MMA leaders said that General Musharraf's days as president were numbered and the April 2 strike would be a referendum against him. Addressing the rally, MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmed said that the MMA's struggle was against the enemies of Islam and the military dictatorship. Qazi claimed that he was not motivated by lust for power and that the premiership or presidency meant nothing to him. He appealed to people to form a united front against the government.
MMA Secretary General Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan claimed that the million-man march was on the right track and would achieve its objectives. Qazi said that a change in the echelons of power had become inevitable because the government's policies were strengthening capitalists and the feudal system instead of the poor. He claimed that such a change would be brought about by the people of Pakistan, not by the United Sates. The MMA leader said the journey which the Muslims of the subcontinent began on March 23,1940, was still on and would culminate only when they had overthrown the dictatorship and enforced an Islamic regime.