THREE DAYS JOIN SESSION OF OARLIAMENT TO START TODAY

THREE DAYS JOIN SESSION OF OARLIAMENT TO START TODAY

Pakistan debates future U.S. engagement
 
ISLAMABAD,

A joint session of Pakistan's parliament will meet Today to discuss new terms of engagement with the United States,

The parliament will debate the recommendations of a special commission and will vote whether to accept them or not, spokesman Akram Shaheedi said.

Amid huge domestic and military pressure after NATO airstrikes on the Pakistani-Afghan border killed 24 Pakistani soldiers last November, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani created the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, a group of 18 members of parliament responsible for reviewing relations with the United States.

Both the houses of the Parliament will meet and forenoon at a joint sitting to discuss the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security to revisit relations with the United States and NATO.Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza is likely to chair the session summoned by President Asif Ali Zardari in exercise of powers conferred upon him under Clause (1) of Article 54 of the Constitution.During the sitting expected to continue for three days, the Parliament will discuss about new terms of engagement with the US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).It is for the first time since suspension of the NATO supplies after killing of around two-dozen Pakistani military personnel at Salala check post in Mohmand Agency near Pak-Afghan border that the joint sitting of the Parliament is going to discuss the future dynamism of relations.