Top leadership of ARD and MMA will meet here on Sunday to thrash out a common future line of action vis-à-vis revival of 1973 constitution and the parliament's sovereignty.
It goes without saying that both alliances' possible joining of hands will be a significant development in view of their conflicting views on many issues. For instance, MMA wants continuation of the system, while ARD calls for fresh elections.
Talking to journalists here at his chamber in the Parliament House, the opposition leader in the National Assembly, however, said that MMA was yet to decide whether or not to continue dialogue with the government.
Maulana Fazl underlined the need for result-oriented talks with the government to strengthen the democratic process and the parliament.
However, at the same time, he was upbeat about formation of grand alliance of the opposition parties, in case 'Musharraf continued defying the constitution and the democratic institutions'.
MMA local chapter has displayed banners and resorted to graffiti at prominent places in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, calling upon people to join its black day programme.
This he said, perhaps because of his party's high stakes in NWFP and Balochistan governments. His party, needless to say, is in favour of a dialogue and opposed to packing up of the assemblies.
He also gave a mixed reply to a question, when asked was MMA agreement with the government intact and that would the alliance disown the 17h amendment.
"MMA can neither back out from the agreement nor the 17th amendment," he said with a stern appearance on his face. It is pertinent that MMA chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and some other key alliance leaders have already announced to disown the amendment if Musharraf did not abide by it.
Maulana Fazl disputed President Musharraf's assertion that there was no mention of his quitting as the army chief by December 31 anywhere, saying his uniform was part of the agreement and the amendment sans mention of word uniform. "Keeping in mind his status, Musharraf should have issued a statement on the uniform issue," the opposition leader remarked.
When asked, will MMA contact the ruling coalition leaders, who helped materialise the agreement on the legal framework order (LFO) to force Musharraf to quit the COAS slot, he said people like Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain were totally helpless on this count.
To another question, MMA leader said that the alliance would contact other opposition parties to launch a joint countrywide campaign against President Musharraf.