Fazal vows to field candidates on JI seats
By Asghar Ali Mubarak

ISLAMABAD—MMA’s decision to participate in the ensuing elections was final, as JUI workers have been asked to gear up the electioneering campaign, Secretary General MMA Maulana Fazalur Rehman said.
Talking to newsmen, he said JUI is part of MMA and it will not boycott the elections under any circumstances. JUI will remain intact and will field its own candidates on Jamaat-e-Islami seats, even if they decide to boycott.
Boycott would definitely prove a big mistake like resignations from the assemblies in the past. People who follow the decision of APDM’s boycott were not on the path of MMA, he said.
Some powers want postponement of elections. Let the people beallowed to choose their representatives, he observed.
“There is no atmosphere favouring boycott. Politics shouldmove towards reconciliation and avoid agitation and violence,” he added.
The MMA supreme council had decided that only unanimousboycott decision can prove effective. The supreme council also approved the MMA manifesto and talk of boycott by JI wasastonishing, he said.
In APDM-ARD Charter of Demands (CoDs) drafting committee, Professor Khurshid Ahmed represents JI and not MMA, he informed while replying to a question.
MMA was formed to clear perception of muslims in general andUlema in particular that they are not extremists and can do politics through peaceful means, he added. Maulana Fazalur Rehman said “Qazi Hussain Ahmed use to adviseme to adopt reconciliatory attitude, but now I’m astonished that hehas chosen the extreme path.” “Qazi should not leave his companions alone and avoid negativepolitics,” he suggested.
Responding to a query he said, JUI had suspended its membership from APDM on October 5. To another question, Maulanasaid that in London APC conference JUI and other parties wereinvited on party basis, and not on behalf of MMA.
About other component parties of MMA he said they are with JUIand participated in parliamentary board meeting the other day. JI was alone on the defiance path.
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) clarifying its stance on seat adjustment with Jamiat-e-ulema Islam (JUI-F) said there was no such development in this regard.
According to a press statement issued here on Friday, the partyspokesperson said that the party had not yet made any decision of electoral adjustment with any political party.
Earlier, it had been reported that the PPP had entered into a political seat adjustment with the JUI(F) in Dera Ismail Khan, the party official added.
He said that the report was not correct and no any such accord reached with any political party on the issue of seat adjustment of any constituency.
Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Qazi Hussain Ahmed has said that his party would never backtrack from its just stance of restoration of the deposed judges and the constitution. Jamaat-e-Islami would not turn back from any sacrifice for restoration of the constitution and independent judiciary, he said in a meeting with a delegation of senior lawyers of the Supreme Court, headed by prominent lawyers Hamid Khan and Taufiq Asif here on Friday.