The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Tuesday decided to form government with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Sources divulged that the PPP had only decided to take the constitutional posts.
The PPP will hold talks with the PML-N to secure the posts of president, senate chairman, and provincial governors.
According to the sources, the PPP had decided against taking over the federal ministries.
Earlier, PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari had chaired the CEC meeting at Zardari House.
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Prominent among those who attended the meeting were Yousuf Raza Gilani, Chaudhry Manzoor, Rana Saeed Farooq, Naveed Qamar, and Chaudhry Manzoor Wassan.
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Faryal Talpur, Taj Haider, and Sarfraz Bugti were also present on the occasion.
– PPP does not even try to contact PTI –
On Saturday, Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Saturday that his party does not even try to contact Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan.
Expressing his thoughts, the former foreign minister said, "I have no knowledge about any contact between the PPP and Barrister Gohar Ali Khan."
"The coalition government will definitely based on political give-and-take. I will try to convince the allies to abolish the 17 ministries," he said.
Speaking about the implementation of the PPP's manifesto, Bhutto-Zardari said: "I do not have a clear mandate for the implementation of the party's own manifesto."
