Opposition leaders to meet on Oct 8

Published October 4, 2005

ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Top leaders of the opposition will meet here on Oct 8 to discuss how to step up a mass mobilisation campaign and see how it could be turned into a full-fledged movement against the government.

The meeting will be held at the residence of PPP Parliamentarians’ secretary general Raja Parvaiz Ashraf.

PPP Parliamentarians and ARD chief Makhdoom Amin Fahim, Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) president Qazi Hussain Ahmed, PML(Nawaz) Chairman Raja Zafarul Haq, MMA secretary general and Leader of Opposition Maulana Fazlur Rahman, PTI chief Imran Khan, Prof Hafiz Saeed and others will be attending the meeting on the steering committee’s invitation.

The meeting will take up the proposals drawn up by the 12-member steering committee of the all opposition parties set up in the National Leaders Conference of Sept 4.

The committee was constituted to formulate proposals about launching a unified movement against President Gen Pervez Musharraf and the government.

The steering committee met thrice before calling for a joint meeting of the top leadership of the opposition.

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