LAHORE, April 21: PML-Q Senator S M Zafar is sanguine that some solution to the LFO issue will be found by parliament, and a constitutional mechanism devised to implement an agreement to be worked out by the government and the opposition.

Mr Zafar, a prominent constitutional expert who was the law minister in the Ayub cabinet, told Dawn that sooner or later the LFO issue would be resolved in parliament.

He hoped that political parties would be able to settle the controversy, as all of them wanted the democratic system to work.

He recalled that in the PML-Q and other parties’ talks, an agreement had been reached on about 27, out of 29 articles, of the LFO. For others, he said, either alternatives were proposed or reservations expressed.