ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party has called a meeting of its lawmakers in Parliament House on Monday to review the decision taken at an AllParty Conference (APC) on Friday to set up military courts for speedy trials of terrorists.

`The establishment of special courts, to be set up after amendments in the Constitution, will be the main agenda of the meeting,` PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar told Dawn.

The meeting would be jointly chaired by Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah and Leader of Opposition in the Senate Aitzaz Ahsan, he said.At the meeting, Mr Babar said, the party`s lawmakers would be briefed on the decision taken at the APC and the PPP`s stance on the issue of military courts. `Party leaders will take their colleagues into confidence on the establishment of military courts.

Answering a question, he said it had been agreed unanimously that no politically motivated case would be tried in military courts.

The PPP, he said, would keep a `vigilant eye` on functioning of the military courts to ascertain whether or not they were being used against political forces in the country.

Earlier, the PPP was not in favour of military courts and both Mr Shah and Mr Ahsan stated on Thursday that it had not been decided in the APC held on Dec 24 that mil-itary courts would be set up after amendments in the Constitution.

Another PPP leader, Saeed Ghani, confirmed that his party`s high command had informed him that the meeting would be held on Monday.

`Although I was against amending the Constitution for setting up the military courts, when my party chief agreed to it I too accepted the decision,` he remarked.

Some sources said the PPP leaders would discuss other issues as well at the meeting on Monday, including the reported differences within the party leadership.

`Every political party has such issues and if they exist in PPP they can be resolved,` said a Peoples Party leader.