Boucher meets PML-N leaders on judiciary issue

LONDON, May 11 (APS)- The efforts to bring about consensus on the vexed issue of the restoration of judiciary took a new turn when American deputy Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher held hour long meeting here on Sunday with PML-N leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif.
The State Department official landed in the British capital early this morning on his way home from a Bangladesh visit and went into talks with the PML-N leaders in an effort to end the stalemate.
Party sources said the meeting discussed the various aspects of the issue relating to the reinstatement of the sacked Supreme Court judges after the earlier rounds of talks between the ruling coalition partners had failed to break the impasse.
The sources said the America is keen to see amicable settlement of the judiciary issue in such a way that all the stakeholders are satisfied. Boucher is also meeting the PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari in his short stay in London.
The PML-N leaders are scheduled to leave for Pakistan later this evening.