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No breakthrough on coalition with JUI-F: Zafar

Published May 22, 2013 Updated May 22, 2013 09:50am

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz Raja Zafar-ul-Haq on Tuesday said that his party and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl had not yet made any breakthrough to form a coalition government at the Centre.

The PML-N leader told APP that the two parties had constituted committees to continue talks on the matter.

Regarding JUI-F's demands of two federal ministries and chairmanship of the National Assembly's Committee on Kashmir Affairs, Raja Zafar-ul Haq said that the JUI-F had already contradicted the news item in that regard.

He said that he had extended a formal invitation to JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur-Rehman for joining the government and his demands had been conveyed to the party's high ups.