LAHORE, Oct 27: Invitations for the proposed All-Party Conference (APC) on the post-quake situation will be issued personally by President Pervez Musharraf, a main leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League said on Thursday.

Senator Tariq Azeem, the information secretary, told Dawn that various PML leaders were approaching the opposition parties to inform them about the importance of the event and persuade them that they should take part in it, rising above their political considerations.

Asked whether the ruling party would still go ahead and hold the APC if the ARD and the MMA refused to participate, Senator Azeem said: “An APC means the one attended by all major parties”.

He said PML chief Chaudhry Shujaat Husain had contacted MMA president Qazi Husain Ahmed, secretary-general Maulana Fazlur Rehman, ARD chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim, PML-N chairman Raja Zafarul Haq and some other leaders.

PML secretary-general Syed Mushahid Husain, he said, had talked to Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan.