MMA council meets tomorrow

Published October 22, 2002

ISLAMABAD, Oct 21: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal supreme council will hold a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the formation of government.

The meeting, second within a week, would discuss the formation of the government in the Centre and that with whom to share the treasury benches in the National Assembly, either with PML-Q or PPP.

The meeting would also deliberate on the issues of the formation of government in Balochistan and the nomination of the MMA candidate for the chief ministership of the NWFP.

The alliance’s president, Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, would preside over the meeting and is expected to be attended by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Samiul Haq, Allama Sajid Naqvi and Prof Sajid Mir.

The MMA parliamentary coordination committee, which was constituted during the previous meeting, would submit a report about its parleys with other parties and parliamentary groups regarding the formation of the government.

At the meeting of the MMA supreme council on Tuesday last, it was decided to constitute a four-member committee, headed by Liaqat Baloch, to hold parleys on candidature of Maulana Fazlur Rehman with certain guidelines.

The MMA sources told Dawn that the JUI(F) leadership had however noticed that the campaigning for the prime ministership would have achieved better results if it was carried out by the heads of the six component parties.

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