Religious parties may form an electoral alliance to contest the next general elections, said Islami Tehrik Pakistan General Secretary Allama Arif Wahidi.
Talking to the media on Sunday, he said leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) and other religious parties were being contacted to form an alliance.
He said that the new alliance could be formed on the pattern of Muttahida Majlis-e-Ammal (MMA) to save religious vote bank from getting divided.
He reminded that the religious parties had got success in elections of 2002 and formed government in North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa), a coalition government in Balochistan and got the slot of opposition leader in the National Assembly.
Wahidi said that MMA was inactive but not out of the scene completely. He said that the new alliance could be an expanded form of MMA and could also include the parties which were not members of the MMA.
