Islamabad: Muthahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), the alliance of six hardline religious parties has vowed to close down American airbases in Pakistan and ask the US forces deployed in the country to leave.

MMA is all set to form the provincial governments in the key North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan and has won a substantial presence in the Pakistan National Assembly in the polls.

American airbases given by the Musharraf government for anti-terrorism operations in the country would be closed down, said Qazi Hussain Ahmad, a key MMA leader, addressing a victory meeting in Peshawar on October 11.

"These bases in any form in Pakistan are unacceptable to us. We consider American presence a brazen abridgement of the country's sovereignty and ego and would ask the US forces to leave," Ahmad, also the chief of the Jamat Islami party, was quoted as saying by the Peshawar-based Pakistan newspaper 'Statesman'.

Pakistan has given four of its airbases for the US operations against Taleban and al- Qaida in Afghanistan, to provide logistic support. US forces conducted joint operations with Pakistan army to hunt the remnants of Taleban and al-Qaida hiding in the tribal areas of the NWFP and Baluchistan.