ISLAMABAD, Nov 2: The six-party National Alliance (NA) on Saturday called a joint meeting of its national executive council and newly elected members on Monday.

The decision to call the meeting of the national executive council was reached during a meeting, which was presided over by former President Sardar Farooq Leghari. The meeting decided to continue deliberations and parleys with other political parties in forming a coalition government of national consensus and to achieve the goals the alliance set in its manifesto.

A meeting of the Grand National Alliance (GNA), of which the NA is a part, will also be held on the same day as the scheduled meeting for Saturday could not be materialized due to non-availability of NA chief Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi.

However, Chaudhry Shujat Hussain and Chaudhry Pervez Illahi of the Pakistan Muslim League-QA did meet Farooq Leghari at later’s residence for some time and discussed broad agenda for Monday’s gathering especially the thorny issue of legal framework order (LFO).

Recently the NA has named Mr Leghari as its parliamentary leader in the National Assembly.

The meeting will decide about its future course especially after President Pervez Musharraf’s summoning of the National Assembly on Nov 8.