Govt to contact by Tuesday, hopes MMA

Published October 12, 2003

ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will hold a meeting of the chiefs of its component parties here on Monday or Tuesday to review the talks it has had so far with the government on the LFO and president’s uniform as also the ground it has covered on the preparations for the proposed mass contact programme.

Sources said the six-party religio-political alliance is hoping that by Monday or Tuesday the government will have finalized its answer to the MMA’s written queries on the latter’s proposal on the agreed draft of the joint constitutional package to be moved in parliament.

Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali had announced before his departure to the United States that he would have an answer ready for the MMA after he had consulted President Pervez Musharraf on his return. The prime minister has already called on the president on Saturday at the Army House.

The MMA had earlier announced postponement of the first phase of the mass contact campaign scheduled for Oct 15-17 in Punjab due to the illness of its Secretary-General, Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and pre-occupation of President Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani.

MMA Deputy Secretary-General Liaquat Baloch told newsmen here on Saturday that the alliance was clear on one thing that it would not engage itself in any more talks with the government and only expected Mr Jamali to fulfil his promise which he made before he left for the US.

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