Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will meet on Friday to discuss issues crucial to cooperation between the country’s two top political parties.
Zardari, who is also co-chairman of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party, travel to Lahore, capital of Punjab province, for the meeting with Sharif, chief of the Pakistan Muslim League-N.
Political sources said the meeting would be held at the Raiwind farm house of the Sharif family near the provincial capital.
The two last met about eight months ago.
Sources in the PML-N said at the centre of the discussions would be the question of repeal of the 17th Amendment inserted in the constitution by former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
Other constitutional reforms outlined in a charter of democracy signed by late leader Benazir Bhutto and Sharif in London in 2006 would also be discussed, the sources said.
–Agencies