The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government decided on Saturday to go ahead with the in-camera briefing on the national security despite joint opposition parties’ boycott of the meeting.
A day after the opposition parties announced that they would boycott the meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, the ruling party asked them to review their decision and attend the briefing by the National Security Advisor, Moeed Yusuf.
Despite their refusal, the government while once again extending the invitation to the key opposition leaders, including the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has decided to convene the 4th in-camera meeting on national security on Monday at noon.
“Fourth in-camera meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security will be held as per its schedule on Monday, 6th December, at 12:00 Noon in the Committee Room No.2, Parliament House,” read the revised notice of the National Assembly Secretariat.
The revised notice has been issued in continuation of the November 30 notification through which National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser had summoned the national security meeting to discuss the security situation in the country and the region. The NSA is scheduled to give a presentation on the National Security Policy in the briefing.
Accusing the government of riding roughshod over the Constitution and making parliament a ‘rubber stamp’, the joint opposition had boycotted the in-camera briefing slated to be held on December 6.
