LARKANA, May 2: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed has warned that if the committee, holding talks on the Legal Framework Order, fails to arrive at a consensus, not only the assemblies will be dissolved but the president and the prime minister will also have to go.

He said that the failure of the negotiation could lead to elections in 90 days, which, he predicted, would be swept by the MMA also in Punjab and Sindh.

Mr Ahmed was talking to journalists at a condolence meeting held here on Friday to mark the soyem of Jamaat-i- Islami leader Maulana Jan Mohammed Abbasi.

He said that nothing short of consensus over the issues would be acceptable to the MMA.

When asked whether the official team engaged in the parleys was ‘empowered’, he replied that they were testing the government by entering into a dialogue with it and with the passage of time, everything would become clear.

The MMA leader said that struggle for restoration of 1973 Constitution and doing away with the LFO would continue and the struggle was aimed at making parliament a supreme body instead of the proposed National Security Council.

He said that no individual had a right to amend the constitution and nobody could simultaneously be president and chief of the army staff and give extension of three years to the judges.

Answering another question, Mr Ahmed said that the MMA with 69 MNAs had an edge over the People’s Party Parliamentarians that had 54 MNAs and that was why the MMA had a right to have its leader of opposition nominated in the National Assembly.

Dispelling the impression about rifts in the MMA, he said that the alliance was united but hurdles were being created in running the alliance government in the NWFP.

Criticizing US interference in Afghanistan, he said that the US was going deep down a quagmire and expressed the opinion that next was the turn of the US as its policies of expansionism would backfire.

He said that the US would be trapped in Afghanistan as Mujahideen had continued to fight there.

Calling the late Maulana Abbasi his leader, Mr Ahmed said that deceased had guided the JI leadership from time to time.

Earlier MNA Asadullah Bhutto, JI Naib Amir Dr Merajul and the son of Maulana Abbasi, Qurban Abbasi, spoke at the condolence meeting and paid tribute to the JI leader.

HESCO: The Hesco has constructed two new power feeders to maintain an uninterrupted electricity supply to Larkana city and its adjoining areas.