April 22, 2007	Sunday	Rabi-us-Sani 04, 1428

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LAHORE, April 21: Some 400 members of the Awami National Party’s Punjab general council will chose here on Sunday their provincial leaders for the next four years in the elections.

The council will elect president, general secretary, a senior vice-president, four vice-presidents and a similar number of joint secretaries along with secretaries for finance and information and a 60-member working council. Besides, it will also elect 120 members for the national council.

Abdus Sattar Haider from Faisalabad and Arif Azhar from Rawalpindi have so far shown interest for the office of president and general secretary. However, if more candidates come forward on Sunday, the provincial council members will use their right to vote.

Haji Adeel, a member of the central election commission, will supervise the process.

The national council, which comprises about 1,600 members, is due to elect the party’s central leadership in Peshawar on April 29. The elections will follow the last meeting of the national working committee where president Asfandyar Wali Khan will submit his report on his meeting with PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto in Dubai.

According to sources, the working committee will consider the country’s political situation, particularly the formation of an alliance of progressive and liberal forces to confront the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal in the next general elections.

The ANP, they said, has already decided to play its role in the formation of a secular alliance.