Islamabad, June 11: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has convened a meeting of all political parties on June 18 to discuss the current situation with India.
The 15-party umbrella group Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) and an alliance of religious parties, which had boycotted a meeting convened by him a few weeks ago, have now agreed to attend the second meeting, said a statement issued here by Information Minister Nisar Memon.

The agreement came after Memon said that the discussions at the All Party Conference would be confined only to Indian deployment and crisis at the borders.
It appears that only ARD President Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, with whom Memon spoke over phone on Monday night, would attend the meeting representing all the 15 alliance partners including the two major political parties, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (PML) headed by former Prime Ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.

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The two parties, however, declined to attend the meeting stating that the invitations should be addressed to their exiled leaders Bhutto and Sharif, who were shunned by Musharraf.

Memon delivered the invitations to the second rung leaders. The parties had boycotted the first APC meeting demanding that Musharraf should resign and constitute a national government to deal with the crisis arising out of tension with India. Bureau Report