PESHAWAR, Feb 26: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Qazi Hussain Ahmed has declared that Gen Pervez Musharraf will prove to the last military ruler of Pakistan. Musharraf, he said, would be ousted soon.

Speaking to journalists here at his Peshawar residence on Monday, he said the military should move back to the barracks after disengaging from active politics.

He said the military brass should adhere to their oath and resume their constitutional duty of defending the country.

He claimed that Gen Musharraf was only following the American dictates, which were against Pakistan’s interests.

He said it was time to launch a decisive protest campaign for dislodging military rulers who were inflicting irreparable losses to the very existence of the country.

The Jamaat-i-Islami chief said the entire country was passing through a unique phase of lawlessness when the security agencies had failed to arrest culprits involved in incidents of bomb explosions across the country.

He said the government was trying to cover its own failures by levelling charges against unknown suicide bombers.

He lamented that Gen Musharraf had made kite-flying a seasonal episode and an international festival of indecent taste.

He said it could not be called enlightenment or a wise thing, instead it was an obscene exercise on the part of the rulers.

Qazi asked the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take suo motu notice against Gen Musharraf and the Punjab government, which had violated the ban on kite-flying.

He said it was the duty of the Supreme Court to get its order implemented in the country.

He said this year this frenetic move had also taken the lives of at least 12 citizens in Lahore alone.

To a question, he said some hidden hands were involved in harassing and scaring school children in the name of bomb blasts in the city. He said it was an organised move by the secret quarters to dub religious people as miscreants thus giving them a bad name.

He said people in Palestine, Iraq and Kashmir might opt for such option, but it was unimaginable in the present context of Pakistan.

He said it was a criminal move to shut the door of learning on innocent children.

Earlier, speaking to tribal notables from North and South Waziristan agencies who had assembled here and joined the JI, Qazi Sahib said you (tribal chieftains) have joined an Islamic caravan, not any person.

He glorified the role of tribesmen living on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghan border and termed them defenders of Pakistan.

Chief Malik from North Waziristan, Malik Shahjehan Khan, Malik Zarin, Malik Saleem and others announced their decision of joining the Jamaat-i-Islami.

MMA president opposed the erection of barbed wire on the border and dubbed it tantamount to the division of families and clans of the same stock.

He said the JI would not allow the rulers to sow the seeds of permanent discontent on the border.

Malik Shahjehan spoke on the pathetic conditions in the agency and said there was no university in the entire Fata, which should cater to the needs of local students.

He said a full-fledged was raging in Afghanistan, but tribesmen in Pakistani areas were being punished for it.

He said the Taliban was a product of Afghanistan and they (tribesmen) had nothing to do with it.

JI provincial chief Sirajul Haq, Senator Prof Mohammad Ibrahim and former Bajaur MNA Haroon Rasheed also spoke on the occasion and welcomed tribal notables in the JI’s fold.