September 24, 2007	Monday	Ramazan 11, 1428

ISLAMABAD, Sept 23: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will meet President Pervez Musharraf at his camp office in Rawalpindi on Monday and brief him on talks he had held with legislators and members of the parties in the ruling alliance to muster support for president’s re-election, sources told Dawn Sunday.

The prime minister was assigned by the president the job to clear doubts about his re-election and decision of some legislators of the ruling alliance not to vote for the president in uniform.The success of the prime minister’s campaign, the sources claimed, would help him to remain the party’s top candidate for premiership if the ruling PML got sufficient seats in the National Assembly.

Mr Aziz has in recent days held a series of meetings with the PML parliamentarians and succeeded in getting their support for Gen Musharraf’s re-election.

The prime minister hopes to contest again for the National Assembly seat from Attock – the seat which vacated by the niece of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.

The prime minister visited Karachi on Friday and Saturday and held meetings with parliamentarians of the coalition parties. He also held a meeting with Pir Pagara, chief of the functional Muslim League.

His meeting was considered significant against the background of recent statements of Pir Pagara about the ‘politics of Chaudhrys’ and ‘demise of the Q-league’.