Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) Deputy Secretary General, Liaquat Baloch MNA on Sunday said the alliance in co-operation with other opposition parties would launch mass contact drive to level public opinion against General Musharraf soon after Eid. "The uniform issue is the core issue of the country. If the government wants to maintain the sovereignty of parliament, President General Pervez Musharraf must hang up his uniform," he opined.
Talking with this scribe here on Sunday, he said the opposition's protest would continue both inside and outside the parliament "General Musharraf has given priority to his personal interests over the national ones," he said. He added that the opposition would not hold talks with the government on the uniform issue.
Replying to a question Baloch said that the MMA Supreme Council had already decided that leader of opposition in the National Assembly and Chief Minister NWFP Akram Durrani would not participate in the National Security Council meeting.
He said Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed recently said that the government would hold talks with the opposition but it was eyewash. "We will not hold dialogue with the government at any cost," Baloch affirmed.