16 July 2004	Friday	27 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425

ISLAMABAD, July 15: The People's Party Parliamentarians (PPP) has formed three special committees to monitor the by- elections in Attock and Tharparkar, a source told Dawn here on Thursday.

The committees have been formed in an emergency meeting of the Central Coordination Committee of the PPP held at the party's central secretariat here on Thursday.

The meeting was presided over by PPP president and Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim. Those, who attended the meeting included former speaker Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani, Malik Hakmin Khan, Kamran Zafar, Syed Kashif Rizvi, Ilyas Mohsin and Masood Sharif.

Senator Mian Raza Rabbani and MNA Nayyar Bokhari have been assigned the task of setting up a control room at the party's central secretariat to monitor the by-polls in Attock and Tharparkar.

The source said another committee had been constituted under Senator Farhatullah Khan Babar, which would make arrangements for the national and foreign media to monitor the election process. Other members of the committee would be nominated by Mr Babar himself.

Another body, comprising members of the PPP foreign liaison committee, the source said, had been given the task to arrange briefings for the diplomats and foreign election observers. He said the committee would also make arrangements for the visit of diplomats and the foreign observers to both the constituencies.