Opposition’s refusal: Parliamentary parties meeting on NAP cancelled

ISLAMABAD: The meeting of parliamentary parties’ leaders convened by Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on March 28 to discuss speedy implementation of National Action Plan (NAP) has been canceled, the Minister's office announced on Wednesday.

"The meeting stands canceled after Pakistan Muslim League's leader Shahbaz Sharif via telephone and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and co-chairman Pakistan People’s Party Asif Ali Zardari through letters regretted to attend the meeting," a statement by the Minister's office said.

Earlier, Foreign Minister Qureshi on the directive of Prime Minister Imran Khan had sent letters to leaders of parliamentary parties on March 18, inviting them to hold consultations on implementation of NAP, at the Parliament House on March 28.