LAHORE - Following the Gilani-Nawaz meeting at Raiwind last Sunday, the PPP and PML-N leaders have set the ball in motion towards achieving their reconciliatory agenda and are expected to form a high-powered committee that will take up the constitutional issues to be piloted through the Parliament. It is learnt that both the parties have agreed to constitute a committee comprising six leaders, three from each side. Sources privy to the newly-launched reconciliation process disclosed that the Prime Minister the other day called on PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif, assuring him that President Zardari was fully on board on the reconciliatory agenda discussed by the leaders of both the parties during their last meeting at Raiwind over the lunch. Sources further stated that the Prime Minister presented a suggestion to the PML-N top leader to constitute a committee that could pick up the constitutional issues to be presented to the Parliament. The main agenda before this committee will be mainly to repeal the 17th Amendment. It is this constitutional amendment, incorporated by Gen Pervez Musharraf under LFO in 2003 that made President all-powerful vis-a-vis Prime Minister and Parliament, tilting the system more towards the Presidential system. It is this amendment which provides to the President the power to dissolve the Assemblies and make major appointments, including the power to appoint Army Chief and Governors. Again, the bar to become Prime Minister for the third time is enshrined in the 17th Amendment. In the past, both PPP and PML-N were in agreement to repeal this amendment. But for quite sometime, the PML-N has been on the forefront to undo the present constitutional arrangement that makes the President more powerful as compared to Prime Minister. The sources in PPP disclosed that it would not be easy to convince President Zardari to give up all the powers he enjoys at the moment. The PPP leaders close to Zardari have been pleading for a constitutional arrangement, aimed at creating a balance of power between the two offices. "Zardari might press to retain powers to make big appointments to avoid becoming a mere figurehead in the emerging scenario," the sources claimed.