Islamabad, Aug 6 : Amid the raging controversy over the functioning of Pakistan intelligence agency ISI, members of the Senate have reportedly demanded setting up of a parliamentary committee on intelligence to oversee the affairs of the country’s intelligence agencies.
During the parliamentary proceedings yesterday which were dominated by controversy over control of ISI, some senators, including Haji Adeel of the ANP, Waseem Sajjad, SM Zafar and Salim Saifullah demanded that a “parliamentary committee on intelligence” to oversee the functioning of intelligence agencies, reported the Daily Times.
A lawyer in Islamabad has reportedly moved a court urging it to stop the sale of the book - “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West”, written by former premier Benazir Bhutto, for mentioning (in the book) that his client Qari Saifullah Akhtar was involved in the October 2007 Karachi bombings which claimed 
If sources close to former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif are to be believed, at the “make-or-break” meeting between Nawaz and PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, it was decided (between the two leaders) to impeach President Pervez Musharraf and force him to step down from the Presidency.
The Upper House of Pakistan’s parliament the Senate witnessed pandemonium amid heated exchange of words between the Opposition and Treasury benches last evening when Senator Kamran Murtaza’s alleged that President Pervez Musharraf had paid Rs 25 crore to some members of the parliament to elect him as the president.
The conclusive ‘make-or-break” talks between PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif ended on a positive note in the wee hours of morning today, and were described as “successful”, where the government decided to withdraw the notification issued for the reinstatement of the eight Sindh High Court (SHC) deposed judges who were to take oath in Governor House today.
