The government has decided to take parliamentarians into confidence over high-level contacts that have taken place recently between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia following a diplomatic row between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
“A joint meeting of the Senate and the National Assembly Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs has been summoned at Parliament House on Tuesday,” Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed told reporters on the sidelines of Islamabad quadrilateral dialogue on Afghanistan reconciliation.
He said Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz would take the joint committees into confidence over all negotiations held with Saudi foreign Minister and defence minister during their visits to Islamabad. The session would be in-camera, he said.
Mushahid Hussain, who is also the chairman of the Senate Defence Committee, said Pakistan would not be sending its troops to fight in the Saudi-led anti-terror alliance and that Pakistan’s cooperation would be confined to counter-terrorism only.