MMA to call APC on Kashmir after Eid

KARACHI: A top leader of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal said on Sunday that the six-party religious alliance would convene an all parties conference after Eid to discuss the “consequences” of President Musharraf’s proposal to divide Kashmir in seven regions. “It is a blatant violation of our longstanding stance on the Kashmir issue, which will not be tolerated,” Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, deputy parliamentary leader of the MMA in the National Assembly, said while addressing participants at an iftar party hosted by the provincial leadership of the Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (Fazlur Rehman Group). He accused President Musharraf of “stabbing the people of Iraq, Afghanistan and the tribal areas in the back” and claimed the president was going to do the same with the people of Kashmir. He said the main objective of convening an APC on the Kashmir issue was to devise a future course of action against the “evil designs of our rulers who want to sell the Kashmiri people”. “We will agitate against any effort aimed at dividing Kashmir and we’ll also cordon off Islamabad if need be,” he said. He said former interior minister and a PPP defector, Faisal Saleh Hayat, had applied to the PPP to rejoin the party. “I advise the PPP not to allow such turncoats to join the party again and let them suffer for their opportunistic ideas,” said Mr Ahmed. staff report

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