Islamabad, July 06: Pakistan's opposition parties agitating against Pervez Musharraf's presidency and his constitutional amendments have called for an all party meet today to chalkout a new strategy against him.
The Islamist Muthahida Majlis Amal (MMA), which is spearheading the agitation demanding Musharraf to quit as army chief called for the all party meet in Lahore on sunday to carry forward their opposition to his constitutional changes. The combined opposition, which included MMA , Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of deposed prime minister Nawaz Shairf along with several smaller parties have stalled parliament proceedings for over six months against Musharraf's constitutional amendments incorporated in the Legal Framework Order, (LFO). Last week the opposition failed to muster enough votes in the national assembly to bring a no confidence motion against the speaker, Amir Hussain. It has now given a fresh notice of no confidence move against deputy speaker, Sardar Muhamood Yacub, which is scheduled to be taken up next week. Even though this motion is expected to fail, observers said the move is aimed at disrupting parliament proceedings.

Opposition parties already said they would continue to bring in no-confidence motions until Musharraf relented and quit as chief of army.

Bureau Report