Combined opposition in the Senate, minus the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, will devise its strategy on how to agitate on the government handling of the alleged nuclear proliferation on February 13.
Sources in Alliance for Restoration of Democracy told Business Recorder here on Monday that the joint opposition would also raise the issue in the National Assembly for which a requisition would be filed shortly.
The opposition, called the Democratic Alliance, has already filed motions to grill the government, which they alleged had endangered the nuclear programme.
Prime minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali had a marathon meeting with the Speaker National Assembly last week, wherein both sides, besides other matters, discussed the upcoming Senate session and expected meeting of the National Assembly, possibly next week.
The government is likely to make a detailed statement on the floor of the House about the recent developments with particular reference to the nuclear proliferation reports.
These sources, replying to a question, said that the alliance of religious parties would not be invited to the opposition deliberations, 'as it had become part of the government after voting for 17th Amendment'.
Meanwhile, the PPPP Parliamentary Party leader in the Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani, has convened a meeting of the party senators on Friday morning at the Central Secretariat.
PPPP sources said that apart from the nuclear scientists' issue, the meeting would review Pak-India relations in the back-drop of the President Musharraf-Prime Minister Vajpayee talks on January 6 in Islamabad.
Party Chairperson Ms Benazir Bhutto has said that Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan was innocent vis-à-vis the alleged nuclear proliferation and called for inquiry into the allegations by an independent commission with representation from the PPPP and PML (N).
Besides, they added, the senators will also focus on the chain of confidence-building measures, announced by Pakistan and India's response thereto.