GDA evaporates?

Published May 11, 2003

LAHORE, May 10: The Grand Democratic Alliance, a coalition of smaller parties headed by PML-C president Hamid Nasir Chattha, has quietly evaporated after the general elections as its leaders have not met for many months and no meeting is in the offing.

An alliance leader admitted on Saturday that the alliance had become ‘dormant’ after the October polls. However, he said, a formal announcement for the ‘burial’ of the conglomerate had not been made.

He was not sure if the GDA had any role to play in the future.

The ARD was carved out of the GDA in the last quarter of 2000.

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