Delay in NA session urged

Published August 2, 2003

ISLAMABAD, Aug 1: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal president Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani has asked the government not to summon the NA session till the conclusion of the talks on the Legal Framework Order.

The MMA chief said in a statement here on Friday that after discussing the issue with other MMA senior leadership he had found an in-house consensus that the NA session should not be convened at this juncture when the government-MMA talks were in a crucial stage.

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