November 15, 2002	Friday	Ramazan 9, 1423

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ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: Doubts started hovering over the much-trumpeted coalition understanding between the GNA and the MMA on Thursday when their meeting scheduled in the evening was cancelled without assigning any reason for that.

Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, the parliamentary leader of the PML-Q and coordinator between four major parliamentary groups and the government, failed to convince the government side on the suggestions he had been given at the GNA-MMA meeting on Wednesday.

Another impediment in the understanding has been created by the fact that the MMA has rejected the nomination of Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali for the prime ministerial slot.

Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, the deputy secretary-general of the MMA, told Dawn that the GNA, and not the PML-Q, should advance four to five names (for the PM’s office) on which a discussion should be held for making a unanimous decision for the nomination.

Talking to newsmen at his residence on Thursday, Chaudhry Shujaat admitted he had not succeeded in achieving any landmark success in his today’s (Thursday’s) meetings with the government representatives.

He, however, said that the government side had shown readiness to change Article 58(2)(b) to the extent that the president shall file reference to the Supreme Court simultaneously with the orders of the dissolution of the assembly.

Chaudhry Shujaat met Tariq Aziz, the principal secretary to the president, on Thursday and discussed with him the contentious issues.