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Jatoi denies

formation of

pressure group

LAHORE: President National Peoples Party Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, on Friday denied formation of any pressure group within and without the parliament.

Talking after the meeting of the parliamentary committee on Kashmir at Punjab Assembly Chambers here, he said he had not talked about the formation of any pressure group with any reporter and he is perturbed over such reports which are baseless and attributed to him.

He said he believes in consensus and wants to mitigate the confrontation and hostilities from both sides of the political divide. He added that confrontational politics can not serve the purpose.

He was of the view that there should be consensus on all vitally important national issues like Kashmir and this consensus should be demonstrated by both sides.-APP