Pakistan already asked the US to vacate airbase in the country`s southwestern Balochistan province within 15 days and also blocked supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan through its land route.
The Cabinet Committee on Defence (DCC) in an emergency meeting on Saturday night decided to avoid attending the Bonn Conference, the News daily reported. There is no official confirmation of the report.
Foreign ministers of more than 90 countries are expected to attend the Bonn Conference that is believed to take up sensitive and thorny issues regarding the withdrawal of the occupying forces for the war torn country and entering into dialogue with the Taliban.
US Secretary of State Ms. Hillary Clinton will also attend the Bonn Conference where she would meet her Pakistani counterpart Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is also expected to travel to Bonn for the conference.
Pakistan`s absence from the conference would be a major setback to the US-led efforts for bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table.
Turkey hosted the Istanbul Conference on Afghanistan last month with the active support of the United States but it could not yield the results desired by the US and its NATO allies. They had pinned high hopes with the Bonn Conference.
The prime minister will decide within one or two days with regard to summoning joint sitting of the Parliament on the question after consulting the leaders of other parties.
It has also been decided to strengthen the air defences on the borders with Afghanistan.
The air surveillance is being enhanced so that the response of any further incursion should be effective, the sources said.
Interestingly Pakistan deployed air force on the Afghan borders during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) had air combat with the intruding plans and on one occasion a Soviet fighter plane was also shot down during those years.
The PAF had day and night surveillance of the air in the bordering areas with Afghanistan.
(Uu.H-AK)
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