December 30, 2003	Tuesday	Ziqa’ad 6, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 29: A meeting of the heads of component parties of the ARD will be held here on Tuesday to review the current political situation after passage of the 17th Amendment Bill.

ARD Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim will preside over the meeting to be held at the PPP Secretariat at 11am.

A source told Dawn that the ARD leaders would finalize a strategy for the forthcoming sessions of the National Assembly, Senate and provincial assemblies in which President Pervez Musharraf would seek a vote of confidence.

The ARD leaders would also finalize a schedule for public meetings to be held in various cities in connection with ARD’s mass contact drive against the government.

He said most probably the drive would be launched from Sindh in the last week of January.

He said earlier the ARD had been awaiting the outcome of the talks between the government and the MMA on the LFO issue before launching the anti-government campaign.

He said the ARD had given in writing to the Speaker to separate the seats of its members in the National Assembly from the MMA as the religious alliance had become a part of the government after supporting the LFO.