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Military courts: Meeting of parliamentary parties’ leaders convened for tomorrow

ISLAMABAD: The meeting of leaders of parliamentary parties in Senate and National Assembly has been convened in Islamabad on Monday to develop consensus on revival of military courts.

Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in a statement in Islamabad on Sunday said the government tabled the bills for Constitutional and Army Act Amendments relating to the military courts in the National Assembly on Friday.

The Minister said the drafts of these bills were agreed upon on 28th of last month in the meeting chaired by Speaker National Assembly and attended by Parliamentary Leaders. However, some amendments to the proposed draft have subsequently been suggested by Pakistan people’s Party by some other parties.

Finance Minister said under current circumstances the nation is looking for the united, coherent and resolute response by the political parties to effectively tackle the menace of terrorism.

Ishaq Dar said that in the last few years, the political parties have developed a culture of consensus through dialogue on issued of national importance.

He said all the political parties have demonstrated that they can rise above party politics for a national cause.

The Finance Minister hoped that in tomorrow meeting political parties will once again demonstrate unity and dissolve to effectively deal with the challenge of terrorism