19 October 2004	Tuesday	04 Ramazan 1425

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 18: A three-member team of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) would brief on Tuesday the ambassadors of European Union (EU) countries on the controversial bill enabling President Gen Pervez Musharraf to hold the offices of president and army chief beyond Dec 31, 2004, sources said on Monday.

The ARD delegation would be headed by the Alliance's chairman, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who has recently returned from a visit to the US and the UK. Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) chairman Raja Zafarul Haq and deputy information secretary of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, Munir Ahmed Khan, would be the members of the delegation.

The sources said the meeting would be held at the Embassy of Netherlands in Islamabad and the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy team would urge the EU ambassadors to ask their governments not to support the 'military government of Gen Musharraf'.

The Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy team, the sources said, would express its 'reservations' over the decision of the Commonwealth to restore the membership of Pakistan, though with certain conditions.

The sources said the delegation members would apprise the EU ambassadors about their future plans of launching a countrywide movement against the "military dictatorship".