ISLAMABAD, March 23: The leader of opposition in Senate, Mian Raza Rabbani, quit his post on Sunday a day after the resignation of Leader of the House Wasim Sajjad.

When asked by this correspondent if he would be the new leader of the house, he said:

“It would be up to the new prime minister … to consider someone from the party to become the new leader of (upper) house.”

Meanwhile, sources said that Mr Rabbani had expressed his inability to be a minister in the new cabinet because he would not like to be sworn in by President Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf.

The sources said that the party had considered Mr Rabbani for the portfolio of the minister of law and parliamentary affairs which he had also held in the previous PPP cabinet.

They said he had told the Pakistan People’s Party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari that he would not be able to accept any cabinet post because of his reservations about President Musharraf.