ISLAMABAD, Jan 11: Recent peace initiatives and the upcoming composite dialogue, being held in February, will hopefully lead to a major breakthrough in the regional context, says Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali.

He said this while talking with chief of the Millat Party Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, who met the former at the Prime Minister's House here on Sunday.

The two leaders expressed the confidence that the recently concluded 12th Saarc Summit would lead to durable peace in South Asia besides promoting efforts aimed at socio- economic development.

They also reviewed the country's political situation, expressing their satisfaction over the adoption of the 17th Constitutional Amendment by parliament, saying it would have a sobering effect on the country's politics. government, they said, would now be able to concentrate on its development agenda.-APP