Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal President Qazi Hussain Ahmad announced on Saturday that he would resign from the National Assembly to protest the Lal Masjid operation.Addressing a press conference here, he said he would submit his resignation to the Speaker of the NA in the next few days. He said he would resist a government plan to demolish the Jamia Hafsa, adding that the MMA would not allow the government to run the madrassa. He said he was trying to form a team of retired judges to investigate the Lal Masjid issue. He said the government had been determined to kill Abdur Rashid Ghazi and his followers.
He said there was no law and order problem in the NWFP, adding that the provincial government had not requested any military action.