ISLAMABAD, July 8: People’s Party Parliamentarians spokesperson Farhatullah Babar on Saturday said no meeting between party chairperson Benazir Bhutto and Jamaat-i-Islami president Qazi Hussain Ahmad was planned in London.

“It is clarified that no appointment is arranged and the offices of neither of the two parties have contacted each other for a meeting,” Mr Babar said in a statement in response to news reports that Mr Ahmad would meet Ms Bhutto in London on July 10 to devise a strategy for launching an anti-government movement.

According to sources, there has been a difference of opinion between the PPP and the PML-N, the two major parties of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, regarding cooperation with the MMA in launching the anti-government movement.

They said the PML-N leadership was in favour of cooperation with the MMA and the PPP leaders were opposing the idea of joining hands with the religious parties’ alliance.

The matter, the sources said, was also discussed in detail at the July 2 ARD meeting in London but the decision was kept pending when the leadership of the PPP and the PML-N failed to reach a consensus.