KARACHI, June 18: The additional secretary-general of the Pakistan Muslim League, Senator Nisar A. Memon, has underlined the need for re-organising and strengthening the party at the gross-roots level before the next general election.

This, he said, could be done through mass contact drives including enrolling new members, consultative and corner meetings, resolution of the workers social and economic grievances, and close liaison in PML bodies from the UC level to the central command besides, making the best use of the media in gathering the masses’ support for the party and the government led by President General Pervez Musharraf.

Mr Memon, who is also the chairman of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence, was speaking at a ‘Fikri Nashist’ organised by the Karachi Division PML here on Sunday.

The consultative meeting was attended by senior officials of the party, the PML's provincial ministers — Irfanullah Khan Marwat, Dr Saeeda Malik, Nadir Akmal Leghari, MPA Banu Siddiqui, Deputy Speaker of the Sindh Assembly Raheela Tiwana, Adviser to Chief Minister, Ghulam Rasool Unar.

Nadir Akmal Leghari , who is general secretary of the Sindh PML, presided over the meeting. The senator emphasised holding of such consultative meetings every week in all the 18 towns of Karachi. —APP