Yes. Can the absurd get any more absurd? As my husband frequents says "Why let logic and reason enter into it".
ISLAMABAD, Jan 1, 2005: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will hold a convention of its supreme council here on Sunday. It will be the first such meeting after Gen Pervez Musharraf formally announced to simultaneously retain offices of the president and chief of army staff.
The council, sources said, would chalk out its strategy in accordance with the latest situation. The council, they said, would also discuss the modalities of a joint struggle with the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD and other smaller parties.
The alliance, sources said, planned to mobilize the public by organizing what it termed a 'caravan' for the final round of the movement against the government.-PPI
http://www.dawn.com/2005/01/02/top2.htm
More info on Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) aka "Jihad elements":
Muttahida gives govt. three months to rein in terrorists
http://www.mqm.org/English-News/Jun-2004/news040621
The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (the coalition of Islamic parties) performed strongly in the provincial elections; it now governs in the North West Frontier Province, and governs in alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam), or PML (Q), in Baluchistan
http://www.economist.com/countries/Pakistan/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3443237
"ISLAMABAD, March 31: Interior Minister Makhdoom Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat on Wednesday accused Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal of patronizing the terrorists holed up in Wana."
http://www.karachipage.com/news/Apr_04/040104.html