Summary The PPP gave green signal to attend parliamentary leaders meeting on military courts extension.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - Speaker National Assembly, Ayaz Sadiq, convinced Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) to end boycott of parliamentary leaders meeting on extension of military courts.
Ayaz Sadiq contacted opposition leader in the National Assembly and PPP leader Syed Khurshid Shah and requested him to end boycott of Parliamentary leaders meeting on military courts revival.
Khurshid Shah said that the PPP top leadership has given a green signal to attend the meeting of Parliamentary leaders in regard to military courts extension. He further said that PPP’s parliamentary leader Syed Naveed Qamar would represent the party in the seventh meeting.
In the sixth meeting of the Parliamentary leaders held on Thursday, PTI, MQM and ANP put forward two demands. First was to retain the previous draft and the second was to formulate a parliamentary committee of national interest for the implementation of National Action Plan (NAP).
Moreover, MQM also demanded provision of powers to local governments in return for their support to the military courts extension.
