QUETTA, Sept 28: Members of the Balochistan Assembly belonging to the JUI-F, National Party and Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party have said that they were waiting for fresh instructions from the APDM leadership on the issue of resigning from the provincial assembly in the light of the Supreme Court verdict rejecting petitions against President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s re-election from the present assemblies.

Senior Minister Maulana Wasay, opposition leader Kachkol Ali Baloch and Abdur Rahim Ziaratwal of the PMAP said this while addressing a press conference at the MPA Hostel after a joint meeting of their parliamentary groups.

They said they welcomed the decision to resign from assemblies and they had chalked out an action plan for October 2, but they would not make their plan public in view of the apex court’s verdict maintaining the status quo.

Maulana Wasay said the JUI-F, NP and PMAP were ideological parties that believed in democracy, political process and constitutional rule despite differences on several issues.

He said that the JUI-F had 17 members, NP five and PMAP four in the 65-member house but two BNP-M members had already resigned and by-polls had not been held by the Election Commission on the two seats.