ISLAMABAD, Sept 6: President-elect Asif Ali Zardari will take oath as the head of state on Monday.

Mr Zardari’s spokesman Farhatullah Babar said: “We are waiting for the notification of the presidential election’s result to be issued by the Election Commission. A formal announcement about the oath-taking ceremony will be made after that.”

He said there was no possibility of holding the ceremony on Sunday and therefore, it would be safe to say that it would take place on Monday.

Information Minister Sherry Rehman also was uncertain about the date of the ceremony.

“Mr Zardari will take oath of office of the president on Monday or Tuesday,” she told a private TV channel.

Sources in the PPP said

Mr Zardari would like to wait for party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to arrive from London before an official announcement about the ceremony was made.