Islamabad: Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders will hold two crucial meetings next week to discuss the reopening of supply routes for foreign forces in Afghanistan and participation in a NATO summit being held in the US from May 20.
The government has convened back-to-back meetings of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC), the highest decision- making body on security issues, and the federal cabinet on May 15 and 16 respectively, official sources told PTI. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, currently on an official visit to Britain, cleared the decision on the meetings from London, the sources said.
Meetings of the DCC are usually attended by the three service chiefs and the two upcoming meetings are expected to focus on ending the nearly six-month-old blockade of NATO supplies to Afghanistan and President Asif Ali Zardari’s participation in the NATO Summit in Chicago during May 20-21, the sources said. (PTI)