A meeting of the provincial Majlis-e-Shoora and executive committee of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan-Noorani (JUP-Noorani) on Sunday asked the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Supreme Council to allow Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazlur Rehman and NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani to attend National Security Council (NSC) meetings in the greater interest of the NWFP. Owais Ahmad Qadri, JUP-Noorani provincial ameer, told reporters after the meeting that his party had suggested the Supreme Council let Fazl and Durrani participate in NSC meetings for the sake of the province. He said their participation would improve and strengthen relations between the central and provincial government.The provincial chapters of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Jamiat Ahle Hadith and Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan, component parties of the MMA, had already asked the Supreme Council to allow their participation in the NSC. MMA leader Hafiz Hussain Ahmad had said a few days ago that Durrani had threatened to resign from the chief minister's office if he were not allowed to participate in the NSC. However, Durrani denied making such a statement the next day. JUP-Noorani, also an MMA component, passed resolutions against the desecration of the Quran at Guantanamo Bay and the disgracing of Muslim prisoners at US detention centres in Iraq and Afghanistan.