01 May 2004	Saturday	10 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

QUETTA, April 30: Balochistan National Party (Awami) Patron-in-Chief Senator Moheem Khan Baloch claimed on Thursday that Millat Party chief Sardar Farooq Ahmed Leghari had not taken his party into confidence over the National Alliance's merger into the Pakistan Muslim League.

Talking to newsmen at the press club, he said the alliance's executive committee had not been convened to take such a vital decision. Moheem Baloch said he had no objection if Sardar Leghari merged the Millat Party into the PML but while deciding the fate of the alliance its component parties should had been taken into confidence in a formal meeting.

He declared that the BNP-A would continue its struggle to strengthen the democratic institutions so that the political process continued. He said it was the responsibility of the political parties to play a positive role for political stability in the country.

Responding to a question, he said his party was not against cantonments, but in the present situation there was no need to construct those in Balochistan.