10 October 2004	Sunday	24 Shaban 1425

LAHORE, Oct 9: ARD leaders at a meeting here on Sunday (today) will work out the schedule for a mass contact campaign for the next few months, a central official of the coalition said on Saturday.

Secretary-General Iqbal Zafar Jhagra told a news conference in the presence of some other ARD leaders that the alliance would discuss the prevailing situation in the country and decide its future course of action.

He said the ARD's stand on the 17th Amendment was inflexible and it was for this reason that the MMA was not being invited to the Monday Round Table Conference.

The Pakhtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, the Balochistan National Party (Mengal), the National Party of Balochistan (Dr Abdul Hayee Baloch group), the Tehrik-i-Insaaf, the Awami National Party, the JUP (Nifaz-i-Shariat group), the Markazi JUP (led by Haji Fazle Karim), the Pushtoon Qaumi Tehrik, the Majlis-i-Ahrar, the Tehrik-i-Ittehad HRCP, the Jamiat Ahle Hadith, the JUI(S), the Mazdoor Kisan Party, the Labour Party and some professional organizations have been invited to the moot.

Jhagra said the MMA could be invited if it renounced the 17th Amendment.