ISLAMABAD May 8: The pro-Musharraf National Alliance, in its first formal meeting here on Wednesday, vowed to help end culture of corruption and injustice, and form a good government through the democratic process in the country.

Later, alliance’s Secretary-General Mohammad Ali Durrani briefing the newsmen said: “ In our view good government could only be an elected government”.

In reply to a question about the suspected-suicide bombing in Karachi and killing of Dr Ghulam Murtaza Malik in Lahore, he did not accept the accidents as failure of the Musharraf government. Terrorism had become an international phenomenon for which no government could be blamed, he explained.

When asked as to how many seats the forces, which helped forge the coalition, had assured to the alliance in October polls, Mr Durrani said: “ This bloc has been constituted at people’s will, and only they will ensure returning of it to power.”

He evaded to reply when questioned about the transparency of April 30th referendum, and the government’s claim that general elections would also be fair, like the referendum.

The league’s meeting through two separate resolutions condemned the terrorist attacks in Karachi and Lahore, and termed them deliberate efforts for derailing government’s initiated economic revival plan, and sabotaging foreign investment scheme.

It also flayed the elements behind the evil acts, and hoped they would be unearthed and punished for hatching a conspiracy against country’s integrity and political stability.

Earlier, the central executive committee of the new bloc met at the residence of alliance’s chief Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, who presided over it. This was attended by Sardar Farooq Leghari, Tahirul Qadri, Ajmal Khattak, Mumtaz Bhutto, Arbab Rahim, Malik Fareedullah Khan, Taj Mohammad Jamali, Syed Khalilur Rahman Chishti, Agha Murtaza Pooya, Anwar Alvi and Mohammed Ali Durrani.

The executives decided to form a four-member action plan body to be headed by Mohammad Ali Durrani, which will report to the alliance’s leadership in the next fortnight on a broad line of action and manifesto.

The participants at Wednesday’s meeting also decided that the central secretariat of the league would be located in Islamabad, and next meeting of the NA executives would be held here on May 18. The coalition also decided to hold country-wide party conventions starting on May 14 from Abbottabad, which would later be extended to divisional level to complete the process within two-and-a-half month.

The alliance also resolved to hold talks with the all political forces of the country for trnasforiming the bloc into a grand alliance so that an atmosphere of true-national reconciliation could be created.

In reply to a question referring to the statement of PPP’s Naseerullah Babar that the pro-government alliance was a conglomeration of corrupt people who had gathered under Musharraf’s umbrella to escape accountability, the secretary-general said that contrary to this claim it was a fact that the country had plunged into poverty and lawlessness owing to the plunderers and inefficient rulers of the past who had established corruption cases against one another, and consequently left the country on their own.