May 29, 2005	Sunday	Rabi-us-Sani 20, 1426

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QUETTA, May 28: More provincial ministers and MPAs of Pakistan Muslim League have joined hands with the group formed in Balochistan against the coalition partner MMA which indicates that the gulf between MMA and PML is widening. According to sources at least four more provincial ministers have contacted the group and assured it of their full support in the efforts it was making for restoring status of PML as senior coalition partner in the present government.

These ministers and MPAs held another important meeting to discuss the situation in the province. Sources said that high command of the ruling party was informed about the situation facing PML ministers and MPAs in the province due to domination of MMA.

Former chief minister Mir Jan Mohammad Khan Jamali has said that consultation meetings were in progress to evolve strategy to deal with the situation. “We are not ready to remain in a coalition government as reserve players,” he told reporters after meeting of the group late on Thursday night.

He said these PML ministers and MPAs were making efforts to make PML and its parliamentary leader stronger. He said that some bureaucrats were creating a wrong impression that the efforts were directed against Chief Minister Jam Mir Mohammad Yousuf.

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