The Supreme Council of the MMA will convene today (Tuesday) to decide whether the six-party religious alliance should withdraw from the Balochistan government, in the wake of last month's killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti. A senior MMA leader told Daily Times that the alliance's provincial leader, Maulana Sherani, was scheduled to brief the session on prospects for the alliance's political future if it did quit the provincial government. However, according to other party sources, while the top MMA leadership supported withdrawal form the coalition government in Balochistan, Maulana Sherani and several other provincial ministers did not favour the move. Maulana Sherani believed that MMA withdrawal from the provincial government would further fuel the Balochistan crisis, indicating that the alliance was simply interested in sabotaging the government set up to pursue its own political agenda in the province. However, most of the top JUI-F leadership favoured quitting the Balochistan government, a view shared by MMA President Qazi Hussain Ahmad, sources said.