ISLAMABAD, June 24: The Supreme Council of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) will discuss at a meeting on Tuesday the thorny issues of quitting the Balochistan coalition government and moving for the dissolution of the NWFP assembly in order to pre-empt any attempt by the ruling coalition to re-elect Gen Pervez Musharraf as a president in uniform.

The meeting will also discuss its agenda for the July 7-8 Multi-Party Conference (MPC) in London. The meeting, to be presided over by Qazi Hussain Ahmed, will discuss and prepare its proposals for incorporation into the final communique of the multi-party conference.

Senior MMA leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri told Dawn by telephone from Sukkur that the alliance would strive for formulation of a grand alliance of all opposition parties to put pressure on the government to drop the idea of getting Gen Musharraf re-elected by present assemblies.

About Benazir Bhutto’s demand for the MMA to quit the Balochistan government as a precondition for attending the MPC, he said it was a “strange demand” since Ms Bhutto had not joined the opposition parties in their anti-Musharraf campaign.—Staff Reporter