ISLAMABAD - PPP Co-Chairman and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces President Asif Ali Zardari has decided to address the joint session of the Parliament after Muharram and called upon the government to take appropriate steps in this regard. Though the date for the joint session is yet to be decided but sometime back the Prime Minister on the demand of Opposition had decided to call the joint session to take the parliamentarians on board regarding the memo controversy ahead of the scheduled National Assembly session on 15th of this month. Sources in the Pakistan Peoples Party informed that President Zardari decided to address the joint sitting of the Parliament to help ease government from the mounting pressure on it due to host of issues including the memo controversy. Sources further informed that President Zardari would not adopt any hostile posture and would once again talk about the politics of reconciliation. He would explain the PPP-led coalition governments position on memo controversy and allay impression of removal of incumbent political dispensation. The sources further divulged that contrary to the hostile posture taken by former law minister Dr Babar Awan against the superior judiciary which had given the impression that the government wanted a showdown with the Supreme Court, President Zardari would hold the superior judiciary in the highest esteem and dispel the impression that PPP was entering into any sort of confrontation with it. Meanwhile, Presidents spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that President Zardari has decided to address the joint session of Parliament and asked the government to make requisite arrangements. Under Article 56 (1) of the Constitution the President may address either house or both houses assembled together and may for that purpose require the attendance of the members, Babar said. He further said the President has also called upon the party workers to show patience, strictly observe democratic norms and refuse to be provoked into any aggression. Aggression is the mindset of the weak and not the strong, he quoted the President as saying. Democracy calls for tolerance, patience and steadfastness as demonstrated by Aung San Suu Ki in standing up to mountains of hardship for the cause, the President said. The time and date of Presidents address to the joint session would be announced by the government after Ashura days.