PPP Core Committee to discuss Karachi, internal rift today

By Asim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned a meeting of the Core Committee of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) today (Friday) to firm up the strategy with regard to situation in Karachi.

The core committee, formed to discuss governance issue of the government, will meet after a gap of three months.

The decision to convene the core committee was taken during a meeting of President Zardari and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday night in which Karachi situation was discussed.

The core committee of the PPP overshadowed the PPP's top policy making body - Central Executive Committee - into redundant and all the decision were taken at the level of the core committee.

According to sources, the economic situation of the country would also be discussed and it was expected that the finance minister would brief about the economy.

The premier is expected to take the National Assembly, which has been summoned for Monday, to take into confidence about the Karachi situation.

The internal rift within the party that come into light with the resignation of Nabil Gabol will also be discussed and it is expected that the decision would betaken to put a ban on all members of the party to make any statement against the party line.

Sources said the issue of ongoing talks with the PML-N on its 10-point agenda would also be discussed.

The sources said four members of the committee - Raza Rabbani, Dr Babar Awan, Syed Naveed Qamar and Raja Pervez Ashraf - were also member of the core committee.

The sources said it was expected that the core committee would also decided about the fate of the accountability

commission that was pending in the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Law and Justice since last two years.