ISLAMABAD, Nov 24: The political activities which kept Islamabad abuzz with intensive political movements by power players for over one-and-half month, has shifted to the provinces after the formation of Zafarullah Khan Jamali government.

The provincial assemblies of NWFP and Punjab are holding their oath-taking sessions on Monday whereas the sessions of Balochistan and Sindh have been summoned on Thursday.

Almost all the central leaders of the major parliamentary parties in the Centre have also left the federal capital in a bid to muster support for their respective parties and achieve their due share in the provincial governments.

PML-Q parliamentary leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, who remained busy in political dialogue with other parties in Islamabad, is in Lahore where the Punjab assembly parliamentary party is giving final touches for the formation of provincial government.

Makhdoom Amin Fahim, president of People’s Party Parliamentarians, who held meetings with various leaders on Saturday night, is Karachi to find out chances for his party to form its government in Sindh, while the PML-Q claims that it can form a coalition government in Sindh, a reference to government formation in Islamabad.

The MMA parliamentary leader, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, has arrived in Peshawar while Maulana Fazlur Rehman has gone to his native town D.I. Khan. Both of them are expected here after a couple of days after which a decision has to be taken on the appointment of leader of the opposition.

Sources say that Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, ARD chief is inclined on bringing Qazi Hussain Ahmed as opposition leader and is pursuing the component parties of the alliance towards that end, while the JUI leadership supports Maulana Fazlur Rehman as leader of the opposition.

Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, deputy secretary-general of the MMA told Dawn on Sunday that the MMA supreme council had decided that Qazi Hussain Ahmed would be the parliamentary leader in case Maulana Fazlur Rahman would have been elected as leader of the House.

Otherwise, he said, Maulana Fazlur Rahman was supposed to act as leader of the opposition which is due to him. There is no chance of the National Assembly session before Eid-ul-Fitr, official and political sources said.

The PPP leaders were busy in getting signatures of the MNAs for requisitioning the session which apparently has been shelved for the time being. An MMA source said if the government failed to summon the house soon after Eid then alliance would initiate its requisition.