LAHORE, Aug 23: The business advisory committee of National Assembly will discuss the MMA’s 28 proposals to finalize a joint agenda for the current NA session. Speaker Chaudhry Amir Husain has convened a meeting of the committee on Monday.

The proposals, submitted to the speaker on Friday by MMA’s deputy secretary-general Liaquat Baloch, include an announcement by the government that the LFO is not part of the Constitution and that it will consult the opposition for presenting a constitutional amendment package before the house to make agreed clauses of the LFO part of the basic law.

The MMA’s demands include tabling of a resolution seeking immediate shedding of the uniform by President General Pervez Musharraf and holding of presidential elections and restoration of the Constitution as it was on Oct 12, 1999.

It also wants a discussion about the US troops’ firing on Pakistan soldiers along the border with Afghanistan, proposed dispatch of Pakistani troops to Iraq, etc.

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