ISLAMABAD, Jan 1: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will hold a convention of its supreme council here on Sunday. It will be the first such meeting after Gen Pervez Musharraf formally announced to simultaneously retain offices of the president and chief of army staff.

The council, sources said, would chalk out its strategy in accordance with the latest situation. The council, they said, would also discuss the modalities of a joint struggle with the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD and other smaller parties.

The alliance, sources said, planned to mobilize the public by organizing what it termed a 'caravan' for the final round of the movement against the government.-PPI