The component parties of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) have expressed reservations about the decision by alliance president Qazi Hussain Ahmed and General Secretary Maulana Fazlur Rehman to launch an anti-government movement. They have accused the two leaders of taking a “confused” decision without consulting the components of the six-party alliance.Sources said that that the Jamiat Ahle Hadith Pakistan (JAHP), the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S) and the Millat-e-Jafferia said that the MMA president and general secretary were negotiating with the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy to launch a joint struggle against the government, and had announced an anti-administration drive at the same time. Such a move would damage the opposition’s objective of toppling the government by the end of 2006, they said.
Sources said that the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan-Noorani (JUP-N) had also protested against the decision to launch an anti government drive “in the hottest spell of summer and without proper planning”. Party chief Anas Noorani was of the view that the Jamaat-e-Islami and the JUI-Fazl, the parent parties of the MMA president and general secretary, wanted to launch their membership campaigns “under the guise” of an anti-government movement, JUP-N leaders said.