PESHAWAR, Feb 29: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal has convened its two-day supreme council's meeting on March 5 and 6 to discuss the prevailing political situation, including the pro-US policies of Gen Pervez Musharraf.

Speaking at the Jamaat-i-Islami training workshop at Nowshera Khurd on Sunday, MMA acting chairman Qazi Hussain Ahmed said that the ruling alliance was pushing the country towards a civil war by launching operation against tribesmen in South Waziristan. He alleged that the Musharraf-Jamali duo had sold out the country, in return for US dollars.

Mr Qazi said time had come to resist the government's pro-US policies with iron hands. The MMA had planned to free the country from the US yoke and its stooges running the show in Pakistan, he added.

Qazi Hussain, who had facilitated the government on the legal framework order, had announced to launch an anti-Musharraf drive. Referring to the Wana military operation, he observed that Gen Musharraf had brought in the armed forces against the people, which was harmful for the national unity.

He said earlier Gen Musharraf had used the armed forces against Jihadis in the name of his so-called war on terrorism. He declared that Gen Musharraf had become a security risk for the country, because the general was working for the US-sponsored new world order in this part of the world. "We have warned the nation in the past about the US designs against the countries in this region", he added.

Mr Qazi, who is also the chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, said the US was opposed to Pakistan's nuclear assets, which was the only deterrent left with the country. "The US and its other western allies want to keep the Muslim world depending on them for food and security", he said.

He said that the US wanted to impose its political, cultural, technological and economic views on Pakistan, but the MMA would resist all such domineering claims.

"The US does not want that any Muslim country be an atomic power", he added. The JI chief told his party workers that the US was opposed to every country which was against the US hegemony in the world.