04 April 2004	Sunday	13 Safar 1425

LAHORE, April 3: Q-League senator Kamil Ali Agha says the National Security Council (NSC) will work as a safety valve to avert imposing of martial law and unforeseen dangers to the democratic system.

In a statement on Saturday, he said the politicians opposing the NSC bill were attempting to ignore contemporary political realities.

He believed that consultations among the president, the prime minister, all the three services chiefs, the National Assembly speaker, the Senate chairman, chief ministers and the opposition leader in the National Assembly would result in a better policy on national issues.

He said clandestine consultations among the occupants of these high offices in the past had been giving birth to conspiracies and misunderstandings, besides spoiling the institutional discipline.