ISLAMABAD: In what could be described as a severe blow to the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD), the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Thursday decided not to attend the alliance's future meetings. "We have decided to stay away from ARD meetings after the Pakistan People's Party-Parliamentarians (PPP-P) did not bother to confer with the PML-N on important decisions," Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, PML-N acting parliamentary leader, told a press conference. He said a PML-N meeting would be held next week to draw up a strategy to discuss the matter with the PPP-P. "The PPP-P made several decisions of national importance but never took the ARD or the PML-N into confidence," he added. He said that on the one hand the PPP-P was chanting slogans of go Musharraf go, but on the other it was talking about national reconciliation. He alleged that the PPP-P ignored the PML-N on Asif Ali Zardari's arrival in Lahore.