Turnaround: PCNS delinks drones, Nato supply

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Turnaround: PCNS delinks drones, Nato supply

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In a turnaround, PCNS agreed to delink drone strikes and Nato supplies.

12 April,2012 06:06 pm

In the last session of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, the participants from coalition parties agreed to scrap the demand for the US to stop drones in order to get Nato supplies to Afghanistan restored. The members instead said that the government need to address the drone issue separately.The draft added that if the joint session of parliament accords approval to restoration of Nato supplies, arms and ammunitions would still not be allowed transporation. It said foreign agents and military staff would not be allowed to operate on the Pakistani soil.Earlier, PML-N and MQM members went out of the PCNS meeting in order to consult their party leadership.The meeting fine-tuned the draft for discussion in joint session of parliament regarding the review of the Pak-US ties.The other day, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman was wooed by President Zardari to attend the session of the PCNS.On the face of it, the Maulana insists his party sticks to its point of view on the Nato supplies.