ISLAMABAD - Co-Chairman Pakistan People's Party Asif Ali Zardari Sunday set up a committee for reconciliation to convene an All Parties Conference (APC) on Balochistan for addressing the grievances of its people and bringing them into the national mainstream as means for restoring peace in the restive province. The party's Co-Chairman Asif Zardari will head the PPP committee while Secretary General PPP Jehangir Badr, President PPP Balochistan Mir Lashkari Raisani, MNA Ijaz Jhakrani, Senator Dr Babar Awan and the Deputy General Secretary of the PPP Balochistan chapter Saadullah will be its members. The committee has been tasked to contact leaders of other political parties and stakeholders for participation in the APC to launch a concerted effort for bringing normalcy in the province. Ijaz Jhakrani will deliver invitation letters signed by Zardari to the heads of all political parties for participation in the APC by hand. Though firm date for holding the APC will be finalised in consultation with other political parties, it is hoped that it is going to be held within the next ten days. In a statement issued here on Sunday, Zardari said that it was imperative to develop national consensus for addressing the problems and grievances of the people of Balochistan. He said that the PPP had already taken the first step by apologising the people of the province for all past injustices to them. "However, mere apology is not enough and there is need to take concrete steps to translate the spirit into a reality," he said. The PPP Co-Chairman expressed the hope that all political parties would join hands on board on this critical national issue for saving the federation. He said that provincial autonomy, mysterious kidnappings of political activists, detention of political workers, grinding poverty, increasing militarization in the province, undertaking mega projects without addressing the concerns of the people and the increasing isolation of its people were the issues which beset the province. "We must develop a national consensus to address these issues urgently," he concluded.