LAHORE, June 2: ARD President Nawabzada Nasrullah has started contacting leaders of alliance components to set a date for a coalition meeting at the earliest possible.

The acceptance of MMA’s Islamization-related demands, progress in the LFO talks and government’s preparations for the budget session are expected to be on the top of the agenda.

The Nawabzada, who returned here from Khangarh on Monday, was tight-lipped about MMA’s demands accepted by the government, saying religious parties had their own alliance.

However, he believed that the MMA leaders would take the ARD into confidence before taking any step. The ARD president pointed out that Islamization was part of the 1973 Constitution and already no law could be enacted against the injunctions of Islam.

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