Ruckus mars in-camera briefing

It was also learnt that Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza later chaired a meeting of the House Business Advisory Committee to sort out with parliamentary leaders of different parties the issues relating to questions and answers and debate on the policy statement during in-camera sitting for the next four days.

In another related development, PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif held a consultative meeting with senior party leaders here Tuesday and vowed to extend unconditional support and cooperation to the PPP-led coalition government.

Informed sources said that PML-N meeting however expressed its discontentment over the government policy statement unveiled earlier by the Information Minister ostensibly on the pretext that there was nothing new in the statement.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has called a parliamentary meeting of the coalition partners ahead of the in-camera session Wednesday for a consensus resolution to support the government policy against war on terror.

Meanwhile, the unavailability of four federal ministers assigned to satisfy the queries of lawmakers in the question/answer session of the ongoing in-camera joint sitting of Parliament on Wednesday (today) irks the Opposition.

Sources told TheNation that in the parliamentary leaders’ meeting with the Speaker National Assembly after Tuesday’s in-camera session in which Federal Information Minister Sherry Rehman briefed the Parliament, the Parliamentary Leaders of PML-Q and PML-N raised doubts about the question/answer session that is scheduled for Wednesday (today) and said that only Sherry was not enough to answer all queries.