Zardari reiterates commitment to CoD

Nawaz assured the President that his party would not become part of any conspiracy to derail the incumbent political dispensation and urged him to work for strengthening of the Parliament by striking balance of powers in state institutions. He further urged the President to take concrete measures to implement CoD and revoke the distortions introduced in the Constitution during the dictatorial rule.
The meeting between PM Gilani and Nawaz Sharif soon after latter’s return from Gilgit-Baltistan was part of the damage control campaign launched by the PPP coalition government. Although according to the official announcement, the meeting between the two was Balochistan Package specific, yet the insiders on both sides informed TheNation that host of issues including constitutional reforms and other contentious matters would be discussed in the meeting.
The spokesman of PM House said that the Prime Minister would take Nawaz into confidence over Balochistan Package. This meeting is a part of the process to take political parties into confidence on Balochistan Package prepared by Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan.
The sources further informed that both sides, during the meeting, would discuss the ways and means to remove the confidence deficit between the two sides, which had multiplied over the past one year.
The sources informed that there was strong realisation between the leadership of both parties that anti-democracy forces could take advantage by causing irreparable loss to the incumbent political dispensation due to state of mistrust between them.