PM contacts MMA again

Published October 15, 2003

ISLAMABAD, Oct 14: A representative of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali met MMA Deputy Secretary-General Liaquat Baloch on Tuesday, for a second time in two days, to seek a meeting with the top MMA leadership on contentious points of the Legal Framework Order.

Mr Baloch told the premier’s representative, Yahya Munawar, that any decision about the resumption of talks would be taken at MMA’s supreme council meeting on Thursday.

Earlier, the prime minister had established contact with the alliance on Monday through Rana Nazir and Mr Munawar for resuming talks on clarification the MMA had sought before his visit to the United States.

MMA parliamentary leader and Vice-President Qazi Hussain Ahmed told reporters at the parliament house cafeteria on Monday that the alliance would consider a deadline by which time the government would be asked to bring the amendment bill to parliament or face a massive agitation campaign.

He said Mr Baloch and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed might meet the prime minister to seek clarification on the LFO points raised by the alliance’s central command.

In reply to a question, Qazi said the MMA had taken the entire opposition, including the ARD, into confidence on its talks with the government and had made public the three drafts of the proposed agreement that were prepared during talks.

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