Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Secretary General Maulana Fazlur Rehman has announced that a “forceful resistance” against the government’s “anti-Islam agenda” would be launched to remove it from power. Fazl told a press conference on Friday that the MMA’s decision to resign from the National Assembly in protest at the Women’s Protection Bill (WPB) was “final”, and plans for this purpose would be made at a meeting of the MMA supreme council on December 6. He challenged President Pervez Musharraf to shed his uniform and “step into the political field” to judge his public worth. He said the MMA would only resign from the National Assembly because “we do not want to punish the NWFP and Balochistan assemblies”. The MMA would “not allow” by-elections for seats that its members would vacate, he added. Fazl said that the WPB would “not be implemented” in NWFP and Balochistan. “Provinces have the constitutional right to reject un-Islamic legislation,” he added.
