LAHORE, Aug 10: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali will be the chief guest at a seminar being organized by the PML-Z on “Challenges facing the country at present” on Aug 16 in Islamabad.

Leaders of the PML-Q, the Jamaat-i-Islami, the JUP, the JUI and other parties will also be invited.

The seminar precedes the death anniversary of the late president Ziaul Haq.

PML-Z Chairman Ejazul Haq told reporters on Sunday that no invitations were being issued for the death anniversary.

Asked to comment on press reports that the PML-N leaders had decided not to participate in the death anniversary, Ejazul Haq said he was not inviting anyone.

He said admirers of Gen Ziaul Haq participated in the anniversary on their own. As for the PML-N leaders, he said, they had been participating in the past and would participate this year as well.

He said he did not know of any abstention decision taken by the PML-N. If such a decision has been taken, he said, he would call upon Mian Nawaz Sharif — who was introduced into politics by Gen Zia — to make it public.