Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman Saturday turned down President Asif Ali Zardari's request to end boycott of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS), which is all set to recommend a conditional restoration of Nato supply route, it has been learnt. Sources told Business Recorder that President Zardari telephoned JUI-F chief and requested him to end his boycott.
They said the JUI-F chief told the President that his party would meet on Monday to decide whether or it should end boycott. The committee, which will meet tomorrow (Monday), would mull over the input of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in its draft recommendations finalised during the absence of the party while in the boycott for three days.
The recommendations also include a conditional reopening of Nato supply route. However, it is yet to be given a final shape. On the restoration of Nato supply route, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has also given a green single. Speaking at a function in Peshawar on Friday, he linked resumption of Nato supply route to an end to drone attacks and expulsion of US contractors.
The sources in PML-N said the party representatives in the committee would also present two new proposals before the panel - that the international community should play a active role towards the resolution of Kashmir dispute under the UN resolutions, and ensure the release and repatriation of Dr Afia Siddiqui from a US prison.
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