Dar told media after the meeting that Zardari had assured him to enhance CJ's tenure to five years, a timeframe that should be acceptable for PML-N. Zardari on Saturday had told a news conference, and repeated in an interview to private television channel, that the constitutional amendment package was not final and open for discussion. The PPP announced to send the draft to other coalition partners. But Dar said his party was still looking for the document and would start deliberating on it within the party the moment it was dispatched.
Sources in both parties said that the meeting might lead to a direct contact (personal or telephonic) between Zardari and Nawaz. They, however, were unsure when it could happen.
MIXED SIGNALS:
Meanwhile, the PML-N appeared to be disseminating mixed signals on whether it would back the 'constitutional amendment package'. Party's chairman Zafarul Haq told a private television channel that the PML-N top decision making body-central working committee-would hold a special meeting to deliberate on the matter when it would receive the draft.
Nisar Ali Khan said the 'package' was the not a right solution to Pakistan's problems because it did not contain the restoration of judges which the nation aspired from the parliament. He, however, did not say any word on the party's plans, either to back the amendment or otherwise.
A spokesperson for the party outrightly rejected the 'package' unless a condition to reduce chief justice's tenure was removed from it. "This is what we will demand," Siddiqul Farooque told Business Recorder.