MMA is back

KARACHI: The prominent religio-political parties have finally revived the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal on Tuesday, appointing Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Fazlur Rehman as its president and Jamaat-e-Islami’s Liaquat Baloch as its general secretary.

The MMA will take part in the upcoming General Election 2018 likely with its previous electoral symbol of “book” and its manifesto will be drafted by a committee chaired by Jamiat Ahle Hadith’s Prof. Sajid Mir in less than a month, Baloch said.

The religio-political alliance will hold a convention in Islamabad in the first week of April in which its electoral symbol, flag and manifesto will be formally unveiled and its policy to go into the election will be announced, he added.

The MMA reunion was held at the residence of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (P)’s Owais Noorani in Clifton as JUI-F leaders Amjad Khan, Akram Durrani, JI’s Sirajul Haq and Professor Ibrahim, JUI-P’s Ijaz Hashmi, JAH’s Ibtisam Elahi Zaheer, Islami Tehreek Pakistan’s Arif Hussain Wahidi and Shabbir Maisami, among others, attended it.

Baloch announced the names of the other office bearers of MMA including JUP’s Hashmi, JI’s Haq, ITP’s Sajid Naqvi and JAH’s Mir as vice presidents, Noorani, information secretary, JUI-F’s Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, JUP’s Muhammad Khan Leghari, and Wahidi, its deputy secretaries, while Maisami has been designated as the finance secretary.