QUETTA, Sept 26: Opposition members in the Balochistan Assembly have urged the MMA central leadership to cooperate in tabling a resolution in the provincial assembly asking President Musharraf to relinquish the post of COAS.

According to sources, opposition leader in Balochistan Assembly Kachkol Ali Baloch, parliamentary leader of the Pakthunkhwa Milli Awami Party Abdur Rahim Ziaratwal, MPA Majid Khan Achakzai and National Party's Mir Tahir Bizenjo met MMA leaders Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Fazlur Rehman separately on Sunday.

The opposition members emphasized upon the leaders of the religious parties' alliance that opposition parties and MMA should jointly move a resolution in the Balochistan Assembly on the pattern of NWFP Assembly exhorting the president to shed his military uniform.

Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Maulana Fazalur Rehman have asked the opposition parties to discuss the matter with the provincial leadership of the MMA, the sources said.

It may be mentioned that the MMA and opposition parties have a strength of 38 members in a house of 65. The PML had on Sept 20 withdrawn its resolution asking the president to retain his military uniform following MMA's threat that it will oppose it.