ISLAMABAD, May 17: The Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) has launched fresh efforts to hold a multi-party-conference in London in June.
Nawaz Sharif had earlier convened an MPC on March 24-25, but it was postponed because of the judicial crisis when all opposition parties agreed that the time was not right for the meeting.
The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal’s supreme council had decided last month to formally ask the PML-N to reinitiate work for the conference to unite all the opposition parties on a minimum agenda against the regime. PML-N leaders Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Ahsan Iqbal and Khwaja Saad Rafiq announced their party’s programme about the MPC in statements on Thursday and said the meeting might take place in the first fortnight of June.
PPP’s Information Secretary Sherry Rahman said her party would be unable to attend the conference in the midst of an intensified campaign that it was leading for the independence of judiciary.
Iqbal Zafar Jhagra said his party was confident that all parties, including the PPP, would participate in the London meeting to chalk out a strategy for restoration of democracy, supremacy of the constitution and independence of judiciary.
Sherry Rahman said: “First of all, my party has so far not been consulted on any such move and secondly, my party may not be able to attend such an event when the party was spearheading a decisive campaign to free the judiciary from dictatorial regime’s clutches”.
Mr Jhagra dismissed the PPP stance on the inclusion of the MMA in the proposed conference.
