In a significant move, joint opposition on Tuesday decided to stage a sit-in in front of the Parliament against military dictatorship, price hike, unemployment, lawlessness and rigging in the local bodies elections on Friday to mark countrywide strike.
This is for the first time since the present National Assembly came into being in 2002 that all opposition groups would jointly agitate outside the Parliament.
Combined opposition will also agitate inside the National Assembly. The call for the strike was given during the national conference held on Sunday.
The steering committee of the National Conference met at the residence of MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmed here after the National Assembly sitting.
Liaquat Baloch told newsmen after the meeting that there would be complete strike on September 9 and the workers of the opposition parties had been asked to play active role to make the strike a success.
An appeal, he added, has been made on behalf of Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Benazir Bhutto, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan, Mehmood Achakzai, Allama Sajid Naqvi and Professor Shah Faridul Haq, to students, farmers, women organisations, transporters and lawyers and traders to cooperate with the opposition parties on the strike day.
The steering committee decided that six-member legal and constitutional experts' team would furnish proposals for constitutional amendments to make the Election Commission an independent and powerful body.
The committee members include Mian Raza Rabbani, Zafar Ali Shah, Ikram Chaudhry, Senator Kamran Murtaza, Hafiz Abdul Rehman Ansari and Hamid Khan.
In the run up to the strike, Baloch said that joint action committees of all the opposition parties are meeting on September 7 at district headquarters to review preparations.
Besides, he said that the provincial joint action committees would also meet in Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi and Quetta the same day. The teams of these committees would hold talks with the representatives of traders and labourers.
Liaquat Baloch is the co-ordinator of the steering committee.
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