Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani agreed to keep NATO supplies to Afghanistan blocked till the parliament takes a decision, local media reported on Saturday.

According to the report by local paper The Nation, the president and the army chief met at the President House in Islamabad on Friday afternoon and discussed the state of security relations with the United States and the NATO forces in the post cross-border attack scenario.

Pakistan closed the supply line for NATO forces in Afghanistan in November last year following a NATO attack on two Pakistani border posts, which killed 24 soldiers.

Both the president and the army chief expressed their satisfaction over the way Parliamentary Committee on National Security (PCNS) was engaged in preparing policy recommendations.

On Friday, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani also told media the Parliamentary Committee on National Security would decide about the restoration of NATO supply lane.

According to media reports, nearly 70 percent of the NATO supplies were shipped into Afghanistan via land route of Pakistan.

The NATO supplies to Afghanistan were first sent to Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi and then transported into Afghanistan for over 140,000 NATO troops in Afghanistan through the two border checkpoints via land route of Pakistan.

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