KARACHI, March 7: Makhdoom Amin Fahim, president of the Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians and a hopeful for the prime minister’s post, said here on Friday that consultations for government formation were continuing with PML-N and other democratic forces.

He also said that negotiations with the MQM were also continuing despite the latter’s decision to sit in the opposition.

He was responding to newsmen’s questions after arriving here from Islamabad to attend a wedding. Mr Fahim said PPP’s candidate for prime minister post would be announced by the party’s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.

He said that people liked him and they wanted to see him as prime minister for which he was thankful to them.

When asked if the PPP would also negotiate with the Q-League, he said that negotiations were taking place with allied parties.

About talks with the MQM, the PPP leader said negotiations were going on and the outcome would be known soon. When asked which province the next prime minister would be from, Mr Fahim said he would be a Pakistani.

Earlier it was reported that Mr Fahim, who also heads the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy, had called a meeting of heads of the parties in the alliance. When asked about the significance of the meeting, a source close to Mr Fahim said its purpose was to discuss the current political situation and the issues that the country faced and the people expected the elected government to resolve.