December 4, 2003	Thursday	Shawwal 8, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 3: The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has decided to continue its protest against the Legal Framework Order (LFO) in the forthcoming Senate session on Friday, a source told Dawn here on Wednesday.

The source said the ARD would continue its protest in the same manner as it had been doing it for the last one year. However, he said, the mode of protest would be decided in a meeting to be held just before the start of the Senate session on Friday.

He said the opposition would continue desk thumping followed by boycott of the Senate session until consensus was reached on the new mode of protest. The ARD would take a decision in this matter keeping in view the fact that the same strategy would have to be adopted by the opposition during the National Assembly session, he added.

Talking to Dawn, the parliamentary leader of the PPP in the Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani, said he had convened a meeting of the party’s senators at the PPP Central Secretariat on Friday at 10.30am to discuss the mode of protest.

Mr Rabbani said after the PPP’s meeting, another meeting of the component parties of the ARD and other like-minded groups would be held at 12.30pm at the party’s central secretariat.