The joint session of the parliament was marked by low participation of legislators taking part in the debate on the report of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS). The committee
was formed to review relations with the United States after the NATO attack on Salala check post that killed 24 Pakistani troops in November last year.
Spread over nine sittings, the longest joint session in Pakistan’s parliamentary history unanimously approved new recommendations on relations with the US and general foreign policy. But the debate showed that the parliamentarians were reluctant to share their thoughts on re-setting ties, which included issues of opening land supply lines for NATO troops in Afghanistan and the drone strikes inside Pakistan.
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