The Foreign Ministry will present the recommendations of the Envoys’ Conference today (Thursday) before the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, which will meet here with Senator Raza Rabbani in the chair. The committee meeting has been convened to discuss the situation arising out of November 26 NATO air strikes in Mohmand Agency and to probe into the memo purportedly sent by President Asif Ali Zardari through Hussain Haqqani, former Pakistani ambassador in Washington and Mansoor Ijaz, a Pakistani-American businessman, to the Obama administration seeking help against a feared military coup in Pakistan.
The two-day Envoys’ Conference, which concluded on Tuesday, suggested the government to renegotiate two important accords on NATO supplies and logistic support to the United States. The conference also asked for NATO apology over Mohmand agency’s strike in which 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed along with various other recommendations. The conference was held to draw a plan on how to revise the foreign policy and especially reshape the relations with the United States after the NATO attack. The Foreign Ministry will now present these recommendations before the parliamentary committee, which will give them a final shape along with its own recommendations on how to reshape Pakistan’s US policy. In his comments on Wednesday, Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit said that after the NATO strikes on two Pakistani outposts in Mohmand Agency last month, Islamabad was forced to opt for a harder stance and take certain important decisions such as the suspension of NATO supplies and boycott of Bonn Conference. He said the agreement to give supply routes to NATO forces was clinched back in 2002 and presently it was in a written form, along with other pacts with the US.
