GUJRANWALA, June 2: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Husain Ahmad has alleged that the US is interfering in Pakistan’s foreign and educational policies and wants to get abolished ‘jehad chapters’ from textbooks.

“And the government is implementing the US agenda,” he told the District Bar Association here on Friday, saying the world powers, including the US, had no right to interfere in such affairs.

He lauded the charter of democracy and hoped that it would serve as the thin end of the wedge for democracy. However, he suggested that steps for the betterment of infrastructure and elimination of corruption, poverty and unemployment should be included in it.

The Qazi claimed that the MMA and the ARD had already reached an agreement some two years ago that President Musharraf and his team should quit, constitution be restored and an independent election commission and impartial caretaker government formed. The MMA, he said, launched its struggle for the purpose which could be at its peak by September this year.

He criticised the government for humiliating noted scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan at the behest of US. He denied that his party was acting at the behest of the GHQ and claimed that it was his party which launched a protest movement against Gen Ayub Khan. He said there was no influence of the MQM in Gujranwala and the allegation by its leader Altaf Husain that the Jamaat-i-Islami had attacked his party office were baseless.

Later, Qazi Husain Ahmad led funeral prayers for Amer Cheema, an engineer who lost his life in Germany, at the mini-stadium on the Sheikhupura Road. He demanded that the government should name the stadium after Amer Cheema. — Correspondent