Summary PTI opposes reaching a final decision without PPP's involvement, meeting to be held again tomorrow
ISLAMABAD: (Dunya News) – Leaders of the parliamentary parties met again today to discuss the delimitation issue but it persists as the fifth meeting also ended due to the absence of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) representation, reported Dunya News.
PPP’s parliamentary leader Naveed Qamar is currently abroad while Opposition Leader Khursheed Shah was unable to make it due to some urgent engagement. Speaker Ayaz Sadiq offered to include Khursheed Shah through telephone call but PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi insisted on his physical presence and thus the issue was postponed to Thursday.
JUI’s federal minister Akram Durrani said that PTI deliberately created a hurdle in the way of consensus. On the other hand, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad made the delimitation conditional to the restoration of the Khatam-e-Nabuwwat clauses.
Ayaz Sadiq told the meeting that all the concerns raised by PPP had been addressed during the Council of Common Interests. However, the final decision on the bill will be taken in the presence of the PPP leaders. We’ll try to get the bill approved on Thursday, he said.
