Dariga Nazarbaeva, head of the official Kazakh television system and eldest daughter of President Nursultan Nazarbaev, told journalists in Pavlodar on 16 September that she is considering turning the public association Asar into a political party, centrasia.ru reported today. She and nine other prominent figures founded Asar in May 2003 with the stated goal of providing help to less-well-off segments of the population and to young people. The name of the association means \"mutual assistance.\" Nazarbaeva has been promoting Asar, which reportedly now has branches in almost all oblast administrative centers, to groups of university students during her current trip through northern Kazakhstan, telling them that young people should play a greater role in the country\'s political life. (RFE/RL)