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| MMA agrees to join coalition government... |
| 2002-10-22 |
| After hectic deliberations extensively monitored and manipulated by the military regime, MMA is reportedly agreed to join a coalition government with PML-Q on the condition that Mir Zafarullah Jamali will be the Prime Minister, Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani will be the Chairman Senate and Liaquat Baloch will be elected as the Speaker National Assembly. Jamali is the General Secretary of PML-Q. Noorani is the emir of JUP, and Liaquat Baloch is Qazi's second in command. Liaquat had just been sentenced to two years in jug for failure to appear, when last heard from. Guess he'll be able to fix that now... MMA is to formally announce the agreement after its central working committee’s meeting to be held here on Wednesday, the sources said. This coalition might be joined by the PPP as well but so far the whole stress of the military government is to keep the PPP and PML-N out of any coalition. While the military regime is interested to keep MMA in the government which would provide the justification to persuade the US authorities to wind up the military operation in Pakistan’s tribal areas and vacate the bases. It's okay. Don't worry about it. There's plenty of room left on the Axis of Evil, and we don't have any illusions... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |