ISLAMABAD – Taking serious notice of lingering issue of missing persons and unabated drone attacks a parliamentary committee has summoned the relevant authorities on May 8.The Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) convened Monday and directed Foreign Ministry, Interior Ministry and other authorities concerned to explain their point of view on these issues of vital national importance.The committee members belonging to PML-N, MQM and those from Balochistan abstained the meeting held under the chair of Senator Raza Rabbani and attended by Nadeem Afzal Gondal, Afrasyab Khattak, Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao and Munir Orakzai.After the meeting, Raza Rabbani told the media that committee had sought reply from Foreign Ministry over its recommendations for rewriting the terms of relations with United States and cessation of drone attacks. He said a letter would be written to the government to bring amendments in the rules for defence and other pacts with the foreign states.Denouncing the unabated drone attacks Rabbani said these were counter productive and direct assault on the sovereignty of the state, and stressed the need for their immediate cessation. Expressing his uneasiness, he said the US on one hand was stating that it would honour Pakistan’s parliament and on the other hand it was continuously flouting its recommendations on immediate end to drone attacks.To a question about the boycott of the committee’s meeting by PML-N members, he said he had talked to Senator Ishaq Dar who had expressed his unavailability due to the party’s CEC meeting. He further said that the N-league’s point of view was already with the committee and the same was incorporated in the committee’s decisions.He further informed that they had accepted invitations from the parliamentary committees of European countries with same mandate to engage into dialogue and learn form each other’s experience.